| 1. "I didn't make `American Pie' to be a hit record," he continues. "You don't go making eight-minute songs to be played on AM radio unless you're a damn fool." 2. "The media faces a great deal of boredom in trying to find things to write about. Times are just dull. Nothing's happening... And so the media has latched onto one tune of mine and blown it up into something it wasn't meant to be. I don't want to explain the song because it is just a song. If I felt my songs needed explanations I'd write little books to go with each one of them." 3. "I've been rightly or wrongly given the sole credit for the resurrection of Buddy Holly and his music, by Buddy Holly's family and by the biographers of Buddy Holly. And I was thrilled because music can do so many things... it can be so powerful, it can be dangerous, it can do what I did with it, which is to, in this case, shed light on another musician's work. And I think that people do so little with it today, basically, and they write about such limited subject matter: it's kind of a shame." |
| DM Quotes: On American Pie |
| Quotes 1-2 : Don McLean, from an unspecified music magazine, 1971. Thanks to Liz Larabell for typing it up! Quote 3: Don McLean, Interview with BFBS, circa 1994? Thanks to Karman Moore for sending me a copy of this! |