Aaron Neville Quotes
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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 never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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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.
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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 feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
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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 get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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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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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 don't want to be on the road all my life.
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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 really like listening to music in my car.
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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 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 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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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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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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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.