111 Quotes by Don McLean

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I’m bowing out.

Work my hands in the soil, what’s the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

When people ask me what ‘American Pie’ means, I tell them it means I don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to.

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

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.

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.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I’d play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn’t something I ever thought about.

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.

They don’t keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.