Leon Russell Quotes

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing sing... -Leon Russell

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn... -Leon Russell

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.... -Leon Russell

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

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The speaker suggests that both economics and politics may lack objectivity or fail to provide accurate predictions.

Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.

I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.

I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.

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