Leon Russell Quotes

I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.

Leon Russell

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• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • You
  • Talk

• I never said I was a genius.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Never
  • Said
  • Genius

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Great
  • Job

• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Country
  • Interesting

• He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Enjoy

• I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Important
  • Love
  • Treat

• I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Done
  • America
  • Movie

• I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Mountains

• I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Great
  • Day
  • Appreciate

• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Madness

• In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 'Did you ever taste beer?' 'I had a sip of it once,' said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!' cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. 'She never tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip!'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • She
  • Small
  • Eyes

• When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

  

  Jamila Woods

• Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Color

• This is the exact definition of my ego. When Fox had my head 40 feet high at Shea Stadium they said to me, 'We're going to give out 100,000 temporary tattoos of your face at the Super Bowl.' And I just swallowed and said, 'No. God. Don't. You're not going to, you can't possibly - what do you mean, temporary?'

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • God
  • High
  • Ego

• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Light
  • Lovely

• I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices ... Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself ... Do something!

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Money
  • Choices

• I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.

  

  Leon Russell