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The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

~Don Mclean

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I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

~Don Mclean

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I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

~Don Mclean

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I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

~Don Mclean

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There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.

~Don Mclean

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I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

~Don Mclean

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I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

~Don Mclean

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Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

~Don Mclean

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I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

~Don Mclean

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I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

~Don Mclean

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 2nd, 1945

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