Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bonowas an American recording artist, producer, and politician who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher, as the popular singing duo Sonny & Cher. He was mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992, and congressman for California's 44th district from 1995 until his death in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth16 February 1935
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.
You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.
With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.
We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.
Put your ego aside and play as a team.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.