91 Quotes by Leon Russell

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

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.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

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.

I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'

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.

I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.

I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.

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.