Don McLean Quotes
Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
-
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
-
I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
-
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
-
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
-
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
-
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
-
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
-
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
-
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
-
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
-
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
-
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
-
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
-
I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
-
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
-
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
-
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
-
Half of democracy is about just showing up.
-
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
-
Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.
-
Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
-
Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.
