Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Don McLean
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New Rochelle
New York
Donald McLean III
Road
Songwriter
Less
Songwriters
Stills
Primarily
Still
Celebrity
Men
Singer
Think
Singers
Thinking
Likes
Like
Sing
More quotes by Don McLean
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don McLean
Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
Don McLean
Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
Don McLean
The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
Don McLean
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.
Don McLean
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
Don McLean
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.
Don McLean
Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.
Don McLean
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.
Don McLean
Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
Don McLean
I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
Don McLean
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.
Don McLean
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.
Don McLean
Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
Don McLean
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
Don McLean
Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
Don McLean
Bad news on the doorstepI couldn’t take one more step
Don McLean
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
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.
Don McLean
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
Don McLean