Don McLean Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
-
People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
-
To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
-
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
-
Now is the only thing that exists.
-
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
-
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
-
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
-
The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
-
I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
-
How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
-
Love is the one wild card.
-
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
-
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
-
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
-
This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
-
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
-
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
-
There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.
-
The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
-
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
-
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
-
The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
