Aaron Neville Quotes
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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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've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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I really like listening to music in my car.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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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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That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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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.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.
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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.
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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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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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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.
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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
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We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.
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People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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I think the Creator renews me.