Del Shannon Quotes

#1. Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

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#2. I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

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#3. Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

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#4. I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

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#5. There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan ... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

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#6. I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

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#7. I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

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#8. Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

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#9. I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.

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#10. It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

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#11. I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

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#12. I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

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#13. I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

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#14. Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

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#15. When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

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