Skip to content

Giving Quote by Don McLean

“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.” quote by Don McLean — Download Open image

“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.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Giving Giving up I am Music making Sing Singing Want Wells Why Will

More by Don McLean

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

Image

The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces…

Image

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air I've got…

Image

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

Image

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Image

You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone…

Image

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Image

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

Image

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of…

Image

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train…

Image

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Image

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have…

Image

Explore all 96 Don McLean quotes

More Giving quotes

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

Image

The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…

Chuck Klosterman

Image

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Image

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

Image

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in…

Laura Schlessinger

Image

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

Bruce Springsteen

Image

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

Luciano Pavarotti

Image

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire…

St. Catherine of Siena

Image

Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.

Image

Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his…

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Image

Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is…

Image

Browse all 38,929 Giving quotes