Redbone Quotes

#1. I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

Leon Redbone

#2. Who told you I was a musician?

Leon Redbone

#3. I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.

Leon Redbone

#4. I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

Leon Redbone

#5. I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

Leon Redbone

#6. In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

Garth Brooks

#7. The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the regime.

Gene Sharp

#8. Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

Eddie Van Halen

#9. Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

Leon Redbone

#10. Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

Leon Redbone

#11. If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Leon Redbone

#12. Home is where you hang your hat.

Leon Redbone

#13. I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

Leon Redbone

#14. I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.

Leon Redbone

#15. To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

David Zayas

#16. Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Leon Redbone

#17. I tend to notice work.

Leon Redbone

#18. You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials without god. But you cannot live outside the welter of colliding materials.

Annie Dillard

#19. If you only knew the beauty of who you are, would beg for more light to illuminate every corner of yourself

Ross Hostetter

#20. I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

Leon Redbone

#21. It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

Leon Redbone

#22. Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

Lester Young

#23. If your focus is on your failures, limitations, & fears, you've one sure destination. You'll get drowned. If not now, at the end of the day!

Assegid Habtewold

#24. There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Leon Redbone

#25. The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Leon Redbone

#26. I would like to speak 10 languages.

Leon Redbone

#27. The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Leon Redbone

#28. What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Leon Redbone

#29. I'm done trying. If you want me in your life, let me know.

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#30. The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.

Gerald Jampolsky

#31. I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

Leon Redbone

#32. The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

Leon Redbone

#33. I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

Leon Redbone

#34. I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

Leon Redbone

#35. I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.

Leon Redbone

#36. If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.

Leon Redbone

#37. If only one had time to think!

William Golding