Top 35 Tom Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.”

— Tom Jones

2. “It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home.”

— Tom Jones

3. “I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.”

— Tom Jones

4. “First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can’t help it.”

— Tom Jones

5. “People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.”

— Tom Jones

6. “Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.”

— Tom Jones

7. “Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That’s why I love vegetables, you know what they’re about!”

— Tom Jones

8. “I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.”

— Tom Jones

9. “I didn’t like to be restricted, because when you’re in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.”

— Tom Jones

10. “I’ve tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn’t look good. It’s overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I’ll go for pinky rings, but not always.”

— Tom Jones

11. “You can’t be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it’s my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.”

— Tom Jones

12. “If you’re going to be a star, you should look like one.”

— Tom Jones

13. “I think teen-age love is a great thing. There’s nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.”

— Tom Jones

14. “There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.”

— Tom Jones

15. “Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.”

— Tom Jones

16. “I’m a lyric man – I’m always looking for meaningful songs.”

— Tom Jones

17. “Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.”

— Tom Jones

18. “My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.”

— Tom Jones

19. “I didn’t have to play rugby that well, and I didn’t have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.”

— Tom Jones

20. “I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I’ve got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs.”

— Tom Jones

21. “Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.”

— Tom Jones

22. “You are only a young talent, but we don’t know how old your soul is.”

— Tom Jones

23. “I don’t think you can sing about certain things when you’re a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven’t lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.”

— Tom Jones

24. “There’s plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I’ll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.”

— Tom Jones

25. “I like to drink to suit my location.”

— Tom Jones

26. “I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.”

— Tom Jones

27. “I haven’t become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It’s just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I’d consider moving back there one day. I never really left.”

— Tom Jones

28. “I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.”

— Tom Jones

29. “I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.”

— Tom Jones

30. “I think it’s good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.”

— Tom Jones

31. “Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn’t had tuberculosis when I was 12.”

— Tom Jones

32. “I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.”

— Tom Jones

33. “I’ve always liked to dance – I’ve got a natural rhythm.”

— Tom Jones

34. “I would want to be known as a great singer; that the records I’ve made and the performances that I’ve done to be remembered. But the voice is the most important thing. The showmanship goes along with it. But I want to be remembered for my vocal ability.”

— Tom Jones

35. “I’ve always felt myself as being a serious singer.”

— Tom Jones

36. “Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.”

— Tom Jones

37. “When I started recording, I thought I’d be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance – and I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.”

— Tom Jones

38. “As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.”

— Tom Jones

39. “I’ve always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn’t wear jewellery because it was stupid.”

— Tom Jones