Don McLean Quotes

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

Don McLean

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• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • You
  • Humor
  • Grace

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Shakespeare

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Trying
  • Been
  • Washington

• We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Family
  • Me
  • Humor

• I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don't have the same taste as me, I try to infiltrate their mind with my favourite bands.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Giving

• I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.

  

  Marc Platt

• The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Art
  • Example

• I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Life
  • School
  • Beautiful

• That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

  

  Don McLean
  • American
  • Song
  • Past