What people say about Celine!

[Bellamy]

here're some quotes from the new A&E Bio:

 

Carole King: when I first heard celine's voice I was astonished that such an instrument existed, let alone coming from such a young woman and a white woman! She truly loves her fans. I have seen her after the show, she will meet and greet for hours until the last person is gone! She’s the Bill Clinton of music diva-dom, she loves people.

 

Tommy Mottola: Celine is the most un-diva diva I ever met, most down to earth - fun-loving, one of the most real people I ever worked with her voice is so versatile she can use it to sound like anything she wants. We had a very strategic, tactical plan with Celine to build the building blocks to give her a huge career. When you have achieved what Celine has you've made it way above the top and Celine without question IS the greatest singer in the world.

 

Sir George Martin: Celine is the top echelon of any singer in the world, male or female.

 

Randy Jackson: she really pays attention to the music like a classical violinist does when they're interpreting something. She got it all going on dude. She got it ALL going on. It’s ALL jumping off of her. People thought she was crazy moving to LV, I think She's helped to usher in the new LV because I think it's gonna become like it did in the rat pack days. its going to be the thing to do, the place to be and a lot of artists are gonna follow suit, it's a brilliant idea, great that she did it and she's probably really enjoying herself. I was executive at Columbia studios and I heard Tommy Mottola say there’s a new girl from Canada that was unbelievably amazing.

 

James Horner: she's highly trained and very disciplined. She’s like an opera singer. Underneath the emotion of seeing her perform of seeing what comes out of her voice, there's a whole factory going on in her head that gets herself in that place, like a football player or something - it doesn't just happen.

 

David Foster: who knew back in the day that she would become this great person, we didn’t know back then. She was just this little skinny girl from Canada, who just happens to sing better than anybody else on the planet. We got this tape and we put it in and it was like the Maxell ad, like when your hair goes back. You would have to be an idiot not to know that this was going to be one of the greatest singers of all time. Celine is Canada's national treasure. There’s no doubt about it.

 

Franco Dragone: people like Celine because she's not perfect. Celine is more than perfection, - on the side of the perfection...great voice, great performer, but she is simple, people identify themselves, it's a great empathy that happens when people go to see her...."

 

Barbara Streisand: she stuck in my mind when David told me there's no-body else in the race, I watched her.

 

Peabo Bryson: You can't sing with Celine and not fall in love with her

There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do short of flying and I’m not sure she couldn’t do that.

 

Jay Leno: I think she’s the most like Barbara Streisand. There are not many people in her league.  Made sure to save celine's first appearance on tape. When celine was on I said u should save that (tape) I bet she becomes really popular. She’s really good. I saved it for myself anyway. [They were going to erase it like they did to Barbra Streisand first performance]

[Koolan]

Poor Barbra, her first performance on tape was erased I especially like Randy's comments Celine had the funny gestures while mentioning James Horner as a really bad singer to Rene during that era