My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud;… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... — 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
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
No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I… — 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
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
A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
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
Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
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 Image
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
