Roy Orbison Quotes

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.
You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.
Barbara and I wanted to do a television special, and she put it together with T Bone Burnett, and they came up with the idea of it being black and white. It was fabulous; we had a great time. It was wonderful.
Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.
I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd spend on the song itself.
I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school - he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.
I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show.
I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear glasses on the plane. I only had the sunshades, and I was quite embarrassed to go onstage with them, but I did it.
I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.
If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.
It's a gift, and a blessing, just to have a voice. And I'm proud that people do appreciate it, you know?
Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.
My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.
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Roy Orbison
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23 April, 1936
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06 December, 1988
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