Leon Redbone

Who told you I was a musician?

— Leon Redbone

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

— Leon Redbone

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the…

— Leon Redbone

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

— Leon Redbone

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

— Leon Redbone

I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means…

— Leon Redbone

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

— Leon Redbone

I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on…

— Leon Redbone

I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought…

— Leon Redbone

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business…

— Leon Redbone

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

— Leon Redbone

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the…

— Leon Redbone

I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of…

— Leon Redbone

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

— Leon Redbone

If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't…

— Leon Redbone

I would like to speak 10 languages.

— Leon Redbone

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm…

— Leon Redbone

I tend to notice work.

— Leon Redbone

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me…

— Leon Redbone

My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out…

— Leon Redbone

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to…

— Leon Redbone

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

— Leon Redbone

Home is where you hang your hat.

— Leon Redbone

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day,…

— Leon Redbone

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange…

— Leon Redbone