Dion DiMucci Quotes

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Dion DiMucci

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 18, 1939

I got a little advice for everybody: marry the girl who's going to get you to heaven.

Dion DiMucci

I got one of the best sax players in the business - Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you.

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I just love to do the songs, and that's what I'm still about - taking people on a trip. A good trip.

Dion DiMucci

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

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I left Columbia in the mid-'60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I wasn't a rich man. There were a lot of bad vibes around the whole thing.

Dion DiMucci

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

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There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for me in the mid-'60s in that studio, which I think frustrated Columbia.

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That is amazing that a guy like St. Jerome who lived in the fourth century could bring people together. Sometimes you think people are dead and forgotten. But they can actually bring you together in the best way.

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I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

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We all fled from religion. Living la vida loca, whatever. The '60s, you know. But it always stayed in my heart. As I got older, I started coming back to religion.

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A rock-and-roll group needed a name that fit criteria in three areas: It had to be great for a bowling team; it had to be great for a gang; and it had to be great for a rock-and-roll group. So we called ourselves Dion and the Belmonts.

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Trying to explain what community is to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to explain what an artichoke tastes like.

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1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

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People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and I'd put myself up against anybody.

Dion DiMucci

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

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I moved my family down to Miami to stay with my father-in-law, Jack, for a while. Best move I ever made.

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Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

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The day I heard Hank Williams for the first time, my life changed.

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For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

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When you're a kid, you get all these rules and regulations coming down on your head. You've got a need to be recognized. But as time goes by, this stuff, if it remains, can kill you. The attitude alone can't sustain anyone forever.

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