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.
absolutely feeling love
I still absolutely love it. I'm still having a ball. I still have the same feeling I had the first week.
cynical process turn
The process got abused, ... So what do you do about it? Do you become cynical and turn your back on it, or do you do something about it?
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.
jobs school autumn
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
song pie hopeful
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.