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I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New Rochelle
New York
Donald McLean III
Kids
Obvious
Back
Died
Would
Nobody
Turn
Knew
Almost
Pneumonia
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Several

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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.
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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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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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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
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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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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
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Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.
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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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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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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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As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.
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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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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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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
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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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