Quotes by Bonnie Tyler

About Bonnie Tyler:

Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer. She spent seven years performing in pubs and clubs around South Wales before being signed to RCA Records in 1975. Tyler is known for her distinctive husky voice, resulting from an operation to remove vocal nodules in the mid-1970s.
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I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.

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I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

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I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.

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When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.

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I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

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I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working. When I'm offered shows here, there and the other, I do an awful lot because I feel other people would love to be offered wh...

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I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a ...

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My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.

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I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

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I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

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You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

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In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

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I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

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I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Grammy along with the song. We lost out to the 'Billie Jean' video.

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I don't do every song that comes my way; I'm very choosy.

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When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked ...

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Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

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I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

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I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

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I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

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I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

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Author Bio

  • NameBonnie Tyler
  • DescriptionWelsh singer
  • AliasesGaynor Hopkins
  • BornJune 8, 1951
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionSinger
  • AwardsSteiger Award