Don McLean quotes

Don McLean is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his iconic hit song "American Pie." His music blends folk, rock, and country influences, capturing pivotal moments of American culture. He continues to inspire audiences with his heartfelt lyrics and storytelling. Here are 43 of his quotes:

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation. But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

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Now I think I know what you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen They're not listening still... Perhaps they never will...

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And I love you so The people ask me how How I've lived till now I tell them I don't know.I guess they understand How lonely life has been But life began again The day you took my hand.

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No days you can borrow, no time you can buy. No trust in tomorrow. It's a lie.

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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

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I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

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I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

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I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

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American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

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I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

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As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

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Wonderful baby, nothin' to fear. Love whom you will, but doubt what you hear. They'll whisper sweet things to make untrue. So be good to yourself, that's all you can do.You're a wonderful baby livin' on love The sandman says maybe he'll take you above, Up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, Where babies float by, just counting their toes.

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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

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Starry starry night, Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul...

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They would not listen They're not listening still... Perhaps they never will...

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I feel like a spinning top or a Dreidel The spinning don't stop when you leave the cradle You just slow down.

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A dream come true, I'll live there till I die. I'm asking you to say my last goodbye. The love we knew ain't worth another try.

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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.

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I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

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I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.

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I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

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