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Leon Russell
Profession : Musician
Birth : April 2, 1942
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I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.
Leon Russell
I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
Leon Russell
There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
Leon Russell
I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.
Leon Russell
Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
Leon Russell
Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.
Leon Russell
I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.
Leon Russell
I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.
Leon Russell
One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.
Leon Russell
When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.
Leon Russell
When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.
Leon Russell
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.
Leon Russell
I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.
Leon Russell
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
Leon Russell
I was afraid of the press.
Leon Russell
My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.
Leon Russell
I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.
Leon Russell
For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.
Leon Russell
All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.
Leon Russell
I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.
Leon Russell
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