Aaron Neville quote: "I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song."

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've...
AARON NEVILLE

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
AARON NEVILLE

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people h...
AARON NEVILLE

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
AARON NEVILLE

I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
AARON NEVILLE

My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
AARON NEVILLE

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
AARON NEVILLE

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's a...
AARON NEVILLE

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So,...
AARON NEVILLE

When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
AARON NEVILLE

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
AARON NEVILLE

I sing around the house, in the shower.
AARON NEVILLE

You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can ...
AARON NEVILLE

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award...
AARON NEVILLE

In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grav...
AARON NEVILLE

Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
AARON NEVILLE

Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It hap...
AARON NEVILLE

My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried...
AARON NEVILLE

I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I ...
AARON NEVILLE

Every morning I wake up and thank God.
AARON NEVILLE

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to ju...
AARON NEVILLE

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
AARON NEVILLE

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
AARON NEVILLE

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl...
AARON NEVILLE

And I wanted to learn how to pray.
AARON NEVILLE

That sound of praising the Blessed Lady was like a saving grace for me, especially when I was at the...
AARON NEVILLE

Success to me is being together as brothers and still looking out for each other.
AARON NEVILLE

These songs have always been with me. They have helped me through some rough times. When I felt like...
AARON NEVILLE

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
AARON NEVILLE

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
AARON NEVILLE

It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best ...
AARON NEVILLE

I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
AARON NEVILLE

'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th a...
AARON NEVILLE

The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; ...
AARON NEVILLE

When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy ...
AARON NEVILLE

We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and...
AARON NEVILLE

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the ...
AARON NEVILLE

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
AARON NEVILLE

I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... sur...
AARON NEVILLE

I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some w...
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know if they are alive or dead.
AARON NEVILLE

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
AARON NEVILLE

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude meda...
AARON NEVILLE

When I went to the movies and heard cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry yodeling when I came out ...
AARON NEVILLE

I feel like a schoolboy, I have butterflies.
AARON NEVILLE

I became fascinated by the Ave Maria.
AARON NEVILLE

I just sing. You have to use it.
AARON NEVILLE

I really like listening to music in my car.
AARON NEVILLE

I think everyone can find something in these songs they can relate to. The message is about having f...
AARON NEVILLE

It's not going. People are still sitting waiting for something to happen.
AARON NEVILLE

I went to jail.
AARON NEVILLE

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record compa...
AARON NEVILLE

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it wit...
AARON NEVILLE

I haven't heard from a lot of my friends and don't know if they are alive or dead, ... When they dra...
AARON NEVILLE

they're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away.
AARON NEVILLE

To see my New Orleans in the state she is in is my worst nightmare.
AARON NEVILLE

Ill keep my memories. Its all moldy and mildew and I have asthma.
AARON NEVILLE

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
AARON NEVILLE

Well, I like Charlie Parker, Ella, Billie Holiday.
AARON NEVILLE

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the ...
AARON NEVILLE

I have asthma and can't inhale that stuff that they have in the air down there.
AARON NEVILLE

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
AARON NEVILLE

My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
AARON NEVILLE

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
AARON NEVILLE

I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for ...
AARON NEVILLE

When the Saints Come Marching In.
AARON NEVILLE

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole th...
AARON NEVILLE

To see my New Orleans in the state she is in is my worst nightmare. We are all praying for our exten...
AARON NEVILLE

My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shr...
AARON NEVILLE

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
AARON NEVILLE

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
AARON NEVILLE

When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drift...
AARON NEVILLE

I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my hou...
AARON NEVILLE

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
AARON NEVILLE

I don't want to be on the road all my life.
AARON NEVILLE

I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
AARON NEVILLE

The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done ...
AARON NEVILLE

Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the is...
AARON NEVILLE

We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
AARON NEVILLE

I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
AARON NEVILLE

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ev...
AARON NEVILLE

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
AARON NEVILLE

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
AARON NEVILLE

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it wit...
AARON NEVILLE

When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
AARON NEVILLE

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
AARON NEVILLE

Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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 ...
AARON NEVILLE

I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri...
AARON NEVILLE

But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
AARON NEVILLE

Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
AARON NEVILLE

Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the o...
AARON NEVILLE

I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. T...
AARON NEVILLE

The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
AARON NEVILLE

I think the Creator renews me.
AARON NEVILLE

I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can rem...
AARON NEVILLE

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should ...
AARON NEVILLE

People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know...
AARON NEVILLE

I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
AARON NEVILLE

Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
AARON NEVILLE

I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
AARON NEVILLE

Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
AARON NEVILLE

Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can...
AARON NEVILLE

When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't yo...
AARON NEVILLE

Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the cha...
AARON NEVILLE

I never left doo wop.
AARON NEVILLE

Singing is a prayer to me.
AARON NEVILLE

I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in...
AARON NEVILLE

There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to ge...
AARON NEVILLE

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone...
AARON NEVILLE

God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
AARON NEVILLE

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
AARON NEVILLE

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
AARON NEVILLE

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It...
AARON NEVILLE

I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.
AARON NEVILLE

My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang...
AARON NEVILLE

I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
AARON NEVILLE

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mo...
GARY NEVILLE

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once wo...
GARY NEVILLE

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football educatio...
GARY NEVILLE

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two play...
GARY NEVILLE

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
GARY NEVILLE

It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
GARY NEVILLE

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
GARY NEVILLE

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while t...
GARY NEVILLE

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important...
GARY NEVILLE

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don...
GARY NEVILLE

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 ye...
GARY NEVILLE

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical ...
GARY NEVILLE

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am di...
GARY NEVILLE

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments ...
GARY NEVILLE

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyon...
GARY NEVILLE

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.
RICHARD NEVILLE

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
ROBERT NEVILLE

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth ...
RICHARD NEVILLE

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he...
NEVILLE CARDUS

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to re...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Gran...
GARY NEVILLE

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
NEVILLE MARRINER

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was...
GARY NEVILLE

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achi...
GARY NEVILLE

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to re...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other ...
GARY NEVILLE

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well...
GARY NEVILLE

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-mask...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself in...
GARY NEVILLE

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which foot...
GARY NEVILLE

This is the real thing, this is no show pony,
GARY NEVILLE

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not ...
NEVILLE MARRINER

We need to become more ruthless and clinical in front of goal.
GARY NEVILLE

Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans.
CYRIL NEVILLE

We're looking at where we are most profitable and then expand our offerings there.
NEVILLE ISDELL

[Prior to the Threadgill's show, Brandi Clark , an event co-organizer and initiative co-founder, vis...
CYRIL NEVILLE

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.
KATHERINE NEVILLE

[The muddy waters roiled by Katrina have no doubt flooded some legendary musical locales and wiped o...
ART NEVILLE

It's going to take some time, but it will come back. We've got to put it back because it's so involv...
ART NEVILLE

A Newer New Orleans.
ART NEVILLE

I have great faith ... But morale has taken a real blow. The people are down, man.
ART NEVILLE

My family is doing wonderful, and I'm happy, ... I'm sorry that we don't have homes any more, but, h...
ART NEVILLE

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

Whatever the reason -- whether Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fightin...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

I remember that the bloodstains on his pants didn't match up with him being on his knees. And there ...
CAROL NEVILLE

The Coca-Cola System is fully activated to meet the demands,
NEVILLE ISDELL

I've had a good crack but if I don't win another two or more before I retire I would still feel I ha...
GARY NEVILLE

He won't give me one single second's rest for 90 minutes,
GARY NEVILLE

My brother always celebrates like that when we beat Liverpool. It means a lot to him and I think peo...
GARY NEVILLE

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful manager Manchester United have ever had. It is ridiculous f...
GARY NEVILLE

We left two cars there and three houses. My wife brought very little clothes. I brought very little,...
ART NEVILLE

When I go to see Herr Hitler I give him the Nazi salute because that is the normal thing.
NEVILLE HENDERSON

Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE

Thunderbird is not going to waver from its core competency, because we see an increasing market dema...
FRANK NEVILLE

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a genera...
NEVILLE CARDUS

We get too carried away by shouts from the crowd. What do you expect?
GARY NEVILLE

The piece we kept coming back to is that Michael was stabbed five times with a pretty big knife in s...
CAROL NEVILLE

We had to guard against complacency and try to take the chances we created, but in the second half t...
GARY NEVILLE

I believe it is peace in our time.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard ...
NEVILLE MARRINER

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
NEVILLE MARRINER

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments wh...
GARY NEVILLE

We understand the need to assess the long-term effects on pulmonary function.
NEVILLE JACKSON

They are very athletic. That guy (Spartan senior guard Tyler) Brown scored 19 points; he was all ove...
PAUL NEVILLE

To me, the only category I'm in is music,
CHARLES NEVILLE

What he took from me was nothing, because he can't take my spirit, he can't take my soul. My soul is...
CHARLES NEVILLE

There are many, many heroes that have come out this. People talking about what I did. I didn't do no...
CHARLES NEVILLE

When they said the storm was coming, I barricaded myself in the house and prayed. Many people in my ...
CHARLES NEVILLE

It wasn't that I wanted to ride out the storm, believe me,
CHARLES NEVILLE

I had no money, ... I'd pay the musicians and go home broke, to make sure they'd stay working, 'caus...
CHARLES NEVILLE

Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart,...
STUART NEVILLE

I think I live in South Austin.
CYRIL NEVILLE

We going to be here, man,
CYRIL NEVILLE

People want to know - do we have a right to live?
CYRIL NEVILLE

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destructi...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

We know over the next few days people will criticize us and rightly so because our performances have...
GARY NEVILLE

I think he's a special talent. I thought there were glimpses of brilliance before Christmas but afte...
GARY NEVILLE

I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

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Aaron Neville

I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

Aaron Neville

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