Leon Russell Quotes
I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
Quotes to Explore
-
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
-
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-
I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
-
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
-
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
-
There's no regrets for me.
-
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
-
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
-
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
-
I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
-
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
-
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
-
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
-
I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.
-
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
-
I take being a role model very seriously.
-
But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
-
I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
