Rod McKuen
Rod McKuen
Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuenwas an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth29 April 1933
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Rod McKuen quotes about
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.
I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.
Never fear being alone, because you never are.
We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.
Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.
The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.
I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.
You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.
It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.
I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.
I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.
For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.