I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make. — Leon Russell About Copy Share Image
It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about… — Leon Russell Baseball Copy Share Image
I had two parts of my body: my left side, which was strong and somewhat dumb, and the other side was weak… — Leon Russell Body Copy Share Image
I often haven't heard the music since I've recorded it. I don't listen to it. When I do hear it, like at… — Leon Russell Grass Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured… — Leon Russell Anything Copy Share Image
Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by… — Leon Russell Age Copy Share Image
I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature. — Leon Russell Expectations Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it. — Leon Russell Books Copy Share Image
I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it! — Leon Russell Always Copy Share Image
The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do. — Leon Russell Believe Copy Share Image
I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way. — Leon Russell I am Copy Share Image
There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty… — Leon Russell Good Copy Share Image
Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies… — Leon Russell Difficult Copy Share Image
I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955. — Leon Russell Before Copy Share Image
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is… — Leon Russell Country Copy Share Image
Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her. — Leon Russell Amazing Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this… — Leon Russell Church Copy Share Image
I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George,… — Leon Russell Crazy Copy Share Image
For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and… — Leon Russell Experience Copy Share Image
My feet are giving out on me. But I have a wheelchair that folds out on my tour bus. I've also got… — Leon Russell Bus Copy Share Image
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Book Copy Share Image
My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was… — Leon Russell Body Copy Share Image
The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have… — Leon Russell Doctor Copy Share Image
I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my… — Leon Russell Endings Copy Share Image
I was with my band at a karaoke bar in Japan when it was very big there, and they got up and… — Leon Russell Band Copy Share Image
If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play… — Leon Russell Day Copy Share Image
I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan… — Leon Russell Day Copy Share Image
When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played. — Leon Russell Another Copy Share Image
Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely… — Leon Russell Go Copy Share Image
I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes. — Leon Russell Disappeared Copy Share Image
My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days. — Leon Russell Been Copy Share Image
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like. — Leon Russell About Copy Share Image
For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs… — Leon Russell Inspiration Copy Share Image
I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend… — Leon Russell Causes Copy Share Image
I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds… — Leon Russell Aware Copy Share Image
Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me. — Leon Russell Act Copy Share Image
