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Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
Don McLean
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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
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New Rochelle
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Donald McLean III
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That's the hard thing - getting started. You get started for a long time until you finally get to this point where people call you an icon or whatever they call you. It's nice. Suddenly the audience is with you more and they help you along and it's not so much that you have to do everything.
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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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Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
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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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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
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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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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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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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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
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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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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
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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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Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
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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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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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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.
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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.
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.
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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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