Don McLean Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”
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“Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?”
-- Don McLeanSource : Song: American Pie, Album: American Pie
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“I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.”
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“Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.”
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“I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.”
-- Don McLeanSource : "American Pie". Song by Don McLean, 1971.
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“My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.”
-- Don McLeanSource : Don McLean (2008). “The Legendary Songs of Don McLean (Songbook)”, p.82, Hal Leonard Corporation
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“As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.”
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“Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.”
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“As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.”
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“Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.”
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“The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.”
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“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.”
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“How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.”
-- Don McLeanSource : Song: Fashion Victim, Album: Starry Starry Night
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“Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.”
-- Don McLeanSource : Song: Dreidel, Album: Don McLean
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“I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.”
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“As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie" I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. ... Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.”
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“I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.”
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“They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”
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“There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.”
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“Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnÂ’t sing it for a while. ThatÂ’s completely false. I am very proud of ‘American PieÂ’ and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung ‘American PieÂ’ for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.”
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“And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
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“We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!”
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“In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed”
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“Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step”
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“...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...”
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“American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.”
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“And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls Just leave me to despair Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye The love we knew, ain't worth another try”
-- Don McLeanSource : Song: Castles in The Air
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“Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.”
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“I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.”
-- Don McLeanSource : Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie
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