Aaron Neville Quotes

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

Aaron Neville

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• A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Me
  • Idea