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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A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.
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More positively, taking pleasure in music is the most obvious sign of comprehension, the proof that we understand it, and we may extend that to sympathy with other listeners' enjoyment ...
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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
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Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.
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So little time and so little to do.
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My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.
