Leon Russell Quotes

I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.

Leon Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1942 - November 13, 2016

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Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

Jesmyn Ward

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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Joel Edgerton

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There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

Andrew Stanton

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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Mo Yan

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I have a retro feel to my work, to my person, but I also have a futuristic view of what's possible. We can have people in pop that have more diverse looks and attitudes.

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Robert De Niro, I have loved this man forever. I mean, I think I have seen the 'Godfather' 300 times, but he is so special.

Joy Mangano

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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.

Jose Saramago

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I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.

Douglas Trumbull

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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

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I see the world through Irish eyes, and they are smiling.

Denise Morrison

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I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.

Dean Wareham

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