Leon Redbone Quotes

"Who told you I was a musician?"
- Leon Redbone

"Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: Dreams, Day, Joy, Sorrow, Tomorrow)

"It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: Song)

"I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: Heart, Now, Right)

"I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: Business, Death, Kiss, Obstacles)

"I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: History)