1. "I think getting married fifteen years ago was what really saved me from being sort of pathetic." (2001) 2. "The first album, `Tapestry,' was even more pessimistic. I can't listen to it now. I appreciate it, but it's just too depressing. I think some of my music is positive, and I'm not a nihilist. The overall tone of the American Pie album is sad, but that's the way life is. There's not much to be happy about right now. Sometimes I'm happy – happy as hell." (c. 1971) 3. "The media in effect is telling me what I am, and they have no idea. I've been treated pretty fairly up to now, but the media people haven't finished with me. I'm prepared to be rejected and sacrificed." (c. 1971) 4. "I am a dreamer, but I'm also a man of action." (c. 1994) 5. "It's not just a limited thing where I'm going to say, `Hey, I've got to be Bob Dylan every day - I'm going to disappoint my fans.' I don't have to be anybody. And that's the great thing about being Don McLean. I can be whoever the hell I want to be." (1997) |
| DM Quotes: On his life |
| Quote 1: Don McLean, from the online interview at Syracuse.com, Sept 17 2001. Thanks for Liz Larabell for laboriously transcribing this! Quotes 2-3: Don McLean, from an unspecified music magazine, 1971. Thanks to Liz Larabell for typing it up! Quote 4: Don McLean, Interview with BFBS, circa 1994? Thanks to Karman Moore for sending me a copy of this! Quote 5: Don McLean, http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsM/mclean_don.html |