Quotes About Valens

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

Henry Garza

#4. 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

#5. Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife

Ruth Downie

#6. I've spent half my life on planes.

Alice Englert

#7. Take care of my moonlark.

Shannon Messenger

#8. Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

Jim Rohn

#9. The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur.

Philip K. Dick

#12. Character is the bedrock of every human adventure.

Moagi Keretetse

#13. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead,

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."
- Frank Balenger

David Morrell

#15. I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

Garry Shandling

#16. Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Don't give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

Evans G. Valens