Don McLean
Don McLean
Donald "Don" McLean IIIis an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the songs "American Pie" and "Vincent"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1945
CityNew Rochelle, NY
CountryUnited States of America
grateful people forever
My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.
thinking people important
I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.
people world spinning
I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
music people american-pie
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
gratitude people glad
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
mean pie people
When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
again ask means people pie work
So when people ask me what American Pie means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
song talking yellow
But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.
fun real teenager
I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.
nashville years association
Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
song pie hopeful
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
stars kids thinking
The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
evil soul loved-ones
As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.
reality space generations
There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.