Aaron Neville Quotes
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I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
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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'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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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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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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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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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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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 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 don't want to be on the road all my life.
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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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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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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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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 think the Creator renews me.
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We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
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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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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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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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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
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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.