Aaron Neville Quotes
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
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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.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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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.
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My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.