Author Profile
Aaron Neville
1941 • American • Musician
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Showing 60 quotesI just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.— Aaron Neville
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.— Aaron Neville
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.— Aaron Neville
The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.— Aaron Neville
I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.— Aaron Neville
It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?— Aaron Neville
Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.— Aaron Neville
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.— Aaron Neville