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 Copy Share Image
I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience. — Leon Russell Audience Copy Share Image
I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what… — Leon Russell 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
My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get… — Leon Russell 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'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor… — Leon Russell 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 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
I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz'… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness'… — Leon Russell Amazing Copy Share Image
I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote… — Leon Russell Game 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 think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to… — Leon Russell Advice Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the… — Leon Russell Classical 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
I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there… — Leon Russell Cinema 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 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 Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll. — Leon Russell Blues Copy Share Image
I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did… — Leon Russell 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 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 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
When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an… — Leon Russell 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me. — Leon Russell Dancing 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 Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody… — Leon Russell Beautiful 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
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
