Leon Russell Quotes
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
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We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.
