Dion DiMucci Quotes

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Dion DiMucci

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 18, 1939

When I didn't do 'Runaround Sue' on the 'Ed Sullivan Show,' for example, I didn't listen to my inner voice. I should have.

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My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

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If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back.

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I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

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I don't sing white; I don't sing black - I sing Bronx. When I sing 'Ruby Baby,' I'm rolling like Jimmy Reed. I wanted to communicate like Hank Williams and groove like Jimmy Reed.

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You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

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I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.

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It was a lot of fun in the back of that bus with Ritchie Valens, Buddy and The Big Bopper sharing each other's songs.

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With Del Shannon - and I've got to tell you this - there's nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified more with musically. We used to sit and sing George Jones and Hank Williams tunes.

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I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

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I heard Robert Johnson way before I heard about Eric Clapton.

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I was a weird kid. I loved music, and I loved reading about God.

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By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

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If you don't have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up.

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Songs, to me, have always been kind of like a diary, you know - and, say, when I did 'Teenager In Love,' maybe I was 16.

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I've got these die-hard fans on Facebook, and you'd swear they haven't heard anything I've done since 1962, 1963.

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I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

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If I could sing and play like Lightnin' Hopkins, I would.

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I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles - I never made the transition.

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People were watching the TV set, and they said three rock-and-rollers died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, including the pilot. I walked out of the hotel. I got on the bus alone. Their clothes were hanging on the racks, their guitars on the seats.

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