Orbison You Got Quotes & Sayings

I waited, and I'm sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records. — Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only. — Bruce Springsteen

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow. — Ringo Starr

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars. — Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man. — Kris Kristofferson

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs. — Dolly Parton

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later. — Teddy Thompson

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you. — Roy Orbison

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. — Roy Orbison

Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours. — Roy Orbison

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot. — Roy Orbison

Elvis was the firstest with the mostest. — Roy Orbison

ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls. — Roy Orbison

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times. — Roy Orbison

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me. — Roy Orbison

Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world! — Roy Orbison

People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered. — Roy Orbison

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. — Roy Orbison

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes into my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper;
"Go to sleep, everything is alright" — Roy Orbison

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed. — Roy Orbison

Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time. — Roy Orbison

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. — Roy Orbison

The songwriting style, to me, is superior ... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity. — M. Ward

I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage ... it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to. — Roy Orbison

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. — Bobby Vinton

I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour. — Richard Ayoade

The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way. — Geddy Lee

You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might. — Roy Orbison

The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison. — Daniel A. D'Aniello

But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that had gone numb on the armrest separating our seats. He did this because in the book Julian Wells lived but in the movie's new scenario he had to die. He had to be punished for all of his sins. That's what the movie demanded. (Later, as a screenwriter, I learned it's what all movies demanded.) When this scene occurred, in the last ten minutes, Julian looked at me in the darkness, stunned. "I died," he whispered. "They killed me off." I waited a bit before sighing, "But you're still here." Julian turned back to the screen and soon the movie ended, the credits rolling over the palm trees as I (improbably) take Blair back to my college while Roy Orbison wails a song about how life fades away. — Bret Easton Ellis