Leon Russell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
-
I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
-
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
-
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
-
I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
-
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
-
I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
-
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
-
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
-
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.
-
Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
-
I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.
-
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
-
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
-
OK, David. Here we are on the train to Exeter, to the football club of which I am joint chairman, and where we're doing a charity show with Michael Jackson. You and I have both demonstrated some of the hidden powers of the mind and it would be interesting to hear, David, how you explain some of your incredible achievements.
-
Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.
-
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
-
It's important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they're forming.
-
I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.
-
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
-
Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.
-
When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.
-
Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.
