There was a moment in time when I had heard Michael Bolton sing 
precisely one thing - "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." I saw him on the 
Tonight Show, I think, and he whipped out an acoustic and did it just 
sitting there at the desk. Jesus, it knocked my socks off. Despite the 
pathetic self-parody that we now know he is, the man has (or had, 
anyway) just an amazing voice, and at that point that's all I had to go 
on. So I thought, hey, this guy has something special.

I was wrong, of course, a fact that became painfully clear when I saw 
him on MTV doing his second hit. And it's sad, because you hate to see 
somebody waste a gift like voice. If he'd had some guidance or 
something, you wonder if he might have become something respectable.

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Sam Smith
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the 
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in 
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing 
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice 
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, 
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing 
from your heart. 

                    - John Millington Synge