Leon Russell Quotes

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

Leon Russell

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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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Base

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Development
  • Artistic

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Just
  • Here

• '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.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Family
  • Think
  • Early

• We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Family
  • Jesus

• There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Black
  • Star
  • Doing

• First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Rest
  • Dark

• You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders

• I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Music
  • Family