- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Pie
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.
- Drift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020