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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.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
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Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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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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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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Bad news on the doorstepI couldn’t take one more step
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In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
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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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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.
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When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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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.
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I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about the creation of a tune etc. and it gives the listener a glimpse inside my songs and then as you get to the last half hour you pick up the pace and work harder and get more into the show. It's all about stagecraft.
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I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
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But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.
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Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
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Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.
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Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
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The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
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