31 Quotes by Leon Redbone

I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.