I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that.… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
That's the hard thing - getting started. You get started for a long time until you finally get to this point where… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The horrible thing about Death of princess Diana - the sacrificial lamb, which she was. And I believe, in a sense, John… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I've always been on the outside of all that political stuff so I just sort of watch it and I'm appalled and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces… — Don McLean Copy Share
And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air I've got… — Don McLean Copy Share
I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world. — Don McLean Copy Share
You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone… — Don McLean Copy Share
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue. — Don McLean Copy Share
Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation. — Don McLean Copy Share
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of… — Don McLean Copy Share
Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train… — Don McLean Copy Share
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has. — Don McLean Copy Share
And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have… — Don McLean Copy Share
The horrible thing about Death of princess Diana - the sacrificial lamb, which she was. And I believe, in a sense, John Kennedy, Jr.… — Don McLean Copy Share
