American - Musician | April 2, 1942 - November 13, 2016
I was with my band at a karaoke bar in Japan when it was very big there, and they got up and made fools of themselves without practicing properly. I didn't understand why they were doing that. It was like they were making fun of the genre by performing badly. But I didn't get up and sing, so I don't know what it feels like.
Leon Russell
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I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.
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For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.
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California always struck me as a police state.
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When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.
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I scarcely talk to reporters at all.
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I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.
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I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
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I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.
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There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
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I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.
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Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
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