Leon Russell Quotes
I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
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I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
