Quotes About Ritchie Valens

#1. I think humans in general, make associations and feel the need to group things together to have a better understanding of them. Though I would say my music is more country in a lot of ways, than it is surfy.

Tristan Prettyman

#2. odd, he thought, how the thought of childhood keeps coming back to me. The result of seeing Clarissa, perhaps; for women live much more in the past than we do, he thought.

Virginia Woolf

#3. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

J.D. Salinger

#4. One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#5. At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if around a small but cheerful fire ... It was the right thing to do on the darkest day of the year.

Margaret Atwood

#6. It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

Horace Kephart

#7. Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

Waylon Jennings

#8. The teenage lead singer counted off, and the band launched into a hot version of "Ooh, My Head," the old Ritchie Valens song - and not really so old in the summer of '61, although Valens had been dead for almost two years.

Stephen King

#9. Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

Waylon Jennings

#10. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Heinrich Heine