Don McLean Quotes

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• Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
• We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
• And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told…
• Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and…
• 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.
• Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
• In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
• Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step
• ...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...
• American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
• I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.
• Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
• 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.
• I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.
• 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…
• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
• Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
• The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
• 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…

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