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The America now is not the America I started out in, and it’s not the America that I was in before I started out … The America that I remember in the 1950s when I was growing up and was a young boy and teenager — that’s the America I knew and the value system I knew.
—Don McLean
Yet this is all part of a scheme for them to get more power, that’s all it is.
—Don McLean
It’s kind of a folk song now, if there’s any definition of what a real folk song is, in the world of music back a hundred years ago or so — even hundreds of years ago in rural areas — there were no tape recorders or TV or radio, or even people who were literate enough to write things down.
—Don McLean
I have a degree in finance and economics, from a good school — Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, which turns out a lot of business people. And all of that stuck with me through the years.
—Don McLean
I was young, I was the right guy at the right time, the audience was receptive, I knew my audience, and I knew what they wanted.
—Don McLean
And it would have three No. 1 songs from that album — but they didn’t really do that back then.
—Don McLean
We won the Olympics — we didn’t send some dumb ‘Dream Team’ with professional athletes over to the Olympics. The Olympics were really the Olympics. Guys didn’t have multi-million contracts and trainers … [The athletes in the Olympics] were everyday Americans. That’s gone now.
—Don McLean
Everything I have, all of my worldly income, is going to go to my foundation.
—Don McLean
And I’m always thankful to have work.
—Don McLean
She’s been automatically disinherited — that’s almost a $ 3 million trust fund that went down the tubes, i’ve always supported my daughter — $ 30,000, $ 40,000, $ 50,000 a year, doubling her husband’s salary. I wanted to make sure the grandkids had everything they wanted.
—Don McLean