70 Quotes by Morgan Neville

I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook.

To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.

A lot of backup singers are really shy and don't want their life documented. They're not pining to be celebrity. They've had a front-row look at celebrity for a long time, and most people find out it's not for them.

If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

I wish I didn't care about what people thought as much as Keith Richards doesn't care.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.