Del Shannon Quotes

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

Del Shannon

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

Del Shannon

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

Del Shannon

#4. Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

G.H. Hardy

#5. 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.

Del Shannon

#6. How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Del Shannon

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

Del Shannon

#9. You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.

Napoleon Hill

#10. CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S. WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND

Charles Dickens

#11. It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.

Michael Morpurgo

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

Del Shannon

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

Del Shannon

#14. 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.

Del Shannon

#15. The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. 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.

Del Shannon

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

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#18. 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.

Del Shannon

#19. 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.

Del Shannon

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

Del Shannon

#21. I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Arsene Wenger

#22. Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Casey Kasem

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

Del Shannon

#24. When Rapunzel saw the prince, she fell over him and began to weep, and her tears dropped into his eyes

Marissa Meyer

#25. My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

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