Words matter. These are the best Roy Orbison Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess – the guys who wrote the concertos.
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect. I couldn’t hardly cheat myself.
As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn’t tell that I’d been crying over you.
I got a woman that’s mean as she can be, sometimes I think she’s almost as mean as me.
I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.
I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special… I’d spend almost as much time on those as I’d spend on the song itself.
You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.
Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that’s really outside the realm of show business.
I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show.
I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear glasses on the plane. I only had the sunshades, and I was quite embarrassed to go onstage with them, but I did it.
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
We used to say, ‘I don’t wanna be jumping around and going crazy when I’m thirty,’ you know? Even Mick Jagger said, ‘Well, I can’t see myself at forty jumping around.’ Well, here we are, you know?
When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to ‘You Are My Sunshine.’
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.
I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school – he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what’s in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.
