Aaron Neville Quotes:- Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941) is an American R&B and soul vocalist and musician. He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that went to #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart. His debut single, from 1966, was #1 on the Soul chart for five weeks.
Inspirational Aaron Neville Quotes
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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It’s a 360-degree sound experience. Like you’re in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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When I record something, I’ll take a drive and just listen.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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I and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we’ve done projects together over the years.
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It’s one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around… It’s an honor to be closing it.
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Famous Quotes by Aaron Neville
When I was growing in the Calliope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We’d skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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I’ve been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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If we were poor, we didn’t know it ’cause I guess you don’t miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich – you didn’t worry about no money.
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I’d sing for whoever’s on the door, and they’d let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I’d sing something like, ‘Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,’ and they’d let me in.
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I started listening to the gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I always feel I’m blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That’s how I see it.
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Best Aaron Neville Quotes
Ain’t no place like New Orleans. It’s one of kind.
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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That’s one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it’s just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that’s the key.
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You’ve just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you’re psyching yourself out, really.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can’t do it alone.
Aaron Neville
There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it’s ridiculous.
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Top Aaron Neville Quotes And Sayings
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn’t get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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But I knew if I ran I’d never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I’m standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer – August in New Orleans – and my skin would turn red. They’d call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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