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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
Aaron Neville -
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
Aaron Neville
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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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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.
Aaron Neville -
When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Aaron Neville -
I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
Aaron Neville
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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.
Aaron Neville -
The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
Aaron Neville -
I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
Aaron Neville -
That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
Aaron Neville
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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.
Aaron Neville -
I really like listening to music in my car.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Aaron Neville -
When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
Aaron Neville -
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Aaron Neville
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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.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Aaron Neville