Del Shannon
Del Shannon
Del Shannonwas an American rock and roll and country musician, and singer-songwriter who is best known for his 1961 No. 1 Billboard hit "Runaway"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1934
CityGrand Rapids, MI
CountryUnited States of America
assume melancholy nobody singers songs thinks writers
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
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I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.
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I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.
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I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.
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I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.
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If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.
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I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
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I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?
drinking way too-much
When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.
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There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
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I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
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Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.
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Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.