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Leon Russell
Profession : Musician
Birth : April 2, 1942
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I'm pretty serious about what I do.
Leon Russell
I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.
Leon Russell
I wish I had gone into industrial plumbing. That's a joke.
Leon Russell
My feet are giving out on me. But I have a wheelchair that folds out on my tour bus. I've also got this little tricycle, so if I want to go someplace, I get those out.
Leon Russell
I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff.
Leon Russell
I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'
Leon Russell
I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.
Leon Russell
For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.
Leon Russell
I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
Leon Russell
I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.
Leon Russell
I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.
Leon Russell
I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.
Leon Russell
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
Leon Russell
I was with my band at a karaoke bar in Japan when it was very big there, and they got up and made fools of themselves without practicing properly. I didn't understand why they were doing that. It was like they were making fun of the genre by performing badly. But I didn't get up and sing, so I don't know what it feels like.
Leon Russell
I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.
Leon Russell
For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.
Leon Russell
California always struck me as a police state.
Leon Russell
It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.
Leon Russell
When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.
Leon Russell
I scarcely talk to reporters at all.
Leon Russell
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