Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Leon Russell - Page 2

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.

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 someone's house, I'll listen. I'm probably the most pleased with the stuff I did with New Grass Revival.

I'm kind of the Forrest Gump of rock n' roll.

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.

I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.

The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me.

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.

It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.

I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good.

I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend of mine