Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Aaron Neville
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
I really like listening to music in my car.
I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
I sing around the house, in the shower.
Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
I think the Creator renews me.
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
I just sing. You have to use it.
I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
I owe it all to Jesus.
Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.
I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.
The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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