Quotes from Roy Orbison

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd spend on the song itself.

It's a gift, and a blessing, just to have a voice. And I'm proud that people do appreciate it, you know?

I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear glasses on the plane. I only had the sunshades, and I was quite embarrassed to go onstage with them, but I did it.

When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'

We used to say, 'I don't wanna be jumping around and going crazy when I'm thirty,' you know? Even Mick Jagger said, 'Well, I can't see myself at forty jumping around.' Well, here we are, you know?

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

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

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

My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.

You set out to whip the world, and then, when you get beat up a little bit... In my case, you say, 'Father, I'm gonna let you have it. I've done what I can do.' You turn your will over to God.

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

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

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

To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect. I couldn't hardly cheat myself.

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.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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

Barbara and I wanted to do a television special, and she put it together with T Bone Burnett, and they came up with the idea of it being black and white. It was fabulous; we had a great time. It was wonderful.

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.