American - Musician | April 2, 1942 - November 13, 2016
Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.
Leon Russell
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I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.
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I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.
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One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.
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When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.
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When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.
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I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.
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When I was born, I had a birth injury in my second and third vertebrae. It gave me what they called spastic paralysis, which is actually cerebral palsy.
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I had two parts of my body: my left side, which was strong and somewhat dumb, and the other side was weak and hard to control but perhaps smarter. It gave me a very strong sense of the duality of the plane that we live in.
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I was afraid of the press.
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My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.
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I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.
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