As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn’t tell that I’d been crying over you. Roy Orbison Read Quote
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. Roy Orbison Read Quote
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. Roy Orbison Read Quote
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. Roy Orbison Read Quote
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. Roy Orbison Read Quote
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.’ Roy Orbison Read Quote
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? Roy Orbison Read Quote
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. Roy Orbison Read Quote
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. Roy Orbison Read Quote
