Aaron Neville Quotes
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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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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When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
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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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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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I really like listening to music in my car.
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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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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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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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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 don't want to be on the road all my life.
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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
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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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I think the Creator renews me.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.