American - Musician | April 2, 1942 - November 13, 2016
I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.
Leon Russell
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My hobby is silence.
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I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff.
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I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'
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Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.
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I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.
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I'm almost totally politically inactive.
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It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.
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The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
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I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
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I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.
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My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.
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