Del Shannon Quotes

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Brain

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • College
  • Football
  • Religion

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Good
  • Me
  • Comfortable

• It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

  

  Clinton Sparks
  • Writing
  • Trying

• What I've realized is that, especially in Los Angeles, a lot of people are on some kind of path, even if they're not completely conscious of it. I've sort of always been on a path to find more peace, more security within myself. I've always felt like I needed something to help me feel better.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • People
  • Help
  • Peace

• I need a woman who is secure and loves herself first. Then she can share that love and light with me.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • She
  • Light

• I didn't come to play. I came to win.

  

  Kamahl

• The groupie situation has been dead for years. We've never really been that big in actually getting involved. I'd say with us, the groupie thing was much more voyeuristic.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Situation
  • Involved
  • Voyeuristic

• Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

  

  Del Shannon
  • People
  • Singing