Leon Russell Quotes
Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
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In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
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Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.
