Top 31 Orbison Quotes
#2. The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
Geddy Lee
#3. Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
Ringo Starr
#4. I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.
Teddy Thompson
#5. It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!
Jeff Lynne
#6. I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
Ville Valo
#7. I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.
Richard Ayoade
#8. I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
Bobby Vinton
#9. Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.
Bruce Springsteen
#10. I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.
Dolly Parton
#11. I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison
#12. I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.
Roy Orbison
#13. A candy coloured clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes into my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper;
"Go to sleep, everything is alright"
Roy Orbison
#14. People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.
Roy Orbison
#15. Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.
Roy Orbison
#16. I waited, and I'm sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.
Roy Orbison
#17. I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.
Roy Orbison
#18. Elvis was the firstest with the mostest.
Roy Orbison
#19. ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.
Roy Orbison
#20. As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.
Roy Orbison
#21. I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage ... it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.
Roy Orbison
#22. Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours.
Roy Orbison
#23. Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
Roy Orbison
#24. Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.
Roy Orbison
#25. Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.
Roy Orbison
#26. Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.
Roy Orbison
#27. I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you.
Roy Orbison
#28. Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!
Roy Orbison
#29. Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.
Roy Orbison
#30. I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
Roy Orbison
#31. You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.
Roy Orbison
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