Zitat des Tages von Aaron Neville:
If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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.
My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.
It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
I owe it all to Jesus.
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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.
Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
I sing around the house, in the shower.
I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.
I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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.
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.