91 Quotes by Leon Russell

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.

California always struck me as a police state.

It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

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.

I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.