Don McLean Quotes
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
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I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.
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I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.
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I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
