I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd spend on the song itself. — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect. I couldn't hardly cheat myself. — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
It's a gift, and a blessing, just to have a voice. And I'm proud that people do appreciate it, you know? — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours. — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd spend on… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show. — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Barbara and I wanted to do a television special, and she put it together with T Bone Burnett, and they came up with the… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.' — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
