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Dion DiMucci

American Musician

Born: Jul 18, 1939

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I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It's great. It's just a lot of fun to write, and it's wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It's just great. Dion DiMucci

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I left Columbia in the mid-'60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I wasn't a rich man. There were a lot of bad vibes around the whole thing. Dion DiMucci

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I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music. Dion DiMucci

Music Business Interviews About Never Always Got

With Del Shannon - and I've got to tell you this - there's nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified more with musically. We used to sit and sing George Jones and Hank Williams tunes. Dion DiMucci

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I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion. Dion DiMucci

Musically Invasion Know Call Infusion British

While Paul Simon is revered, I don't think people get how deep he is. I love the guy. He comes from that early street-harmony, first-generation type of rock and rollers. He gets it. Dion DiMucci

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By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs. Dion DiMucci

Age Williams Songs Knew Over Hank Hank Williams

If you don't have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up. Dion DiMucci

Life God Great You Yourself Wealth Try Honor Power Addictions Pleasure Classical Something Reach Up Substitutes Your Fill Four

If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back. Dion DiMucci

You Lie Somebody Believe Back Excuses Make Trying Going Hold

Hank Williams seemed, like, so total to me, so committed to the lyric. He would actually rip the ends of the words off at the, you know - the end of the sentence. It sounded like he'd bite into the word and rip it off. Dion DiMucci

I've got these die-hard fans on Facebook, and you'd swear they haven't heard anything I've done since 1962, 1963. Dion DiMucci

You Facebook Fans Since Got Heard Done Anything Swear

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word. Dion DiMucci

Creative Word Made Think Relevant Feel Said Really Album

I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles - I never made the transition. Dion DiMucci

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People were watching the TV set, and they said three rock-and-rollers died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, including the pilot. I walked out of the hotel. I got on the bus alone. Their clothes were hanging on the racks, their guitars on the seats. Dion DiMucci

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I got a little advice for everybody: marry the girl who's going to get you to heaven. Dion DiMucci

You Girl Advice Everybody Marry Got Get Going Heaven Little

I got one of the best sax players in the business - Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you. Dion DiMucci

Best Great Me You Business Heart Theatre Sax Tell Horns He Got Bands Blues Apollo Expresses Players Plays

A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank Williams, Jimmy Reid, Howlin' Wolf, listening to a race record, blues. Dion DiMucci

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The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation. Dion DiMucci

That is amazing that a guy like St. Jerome who lived in the fourth century could bring people together. Sometimes you think people are dead and forgotten. But they can actually bring you together in the best way. Dion DiMucci

I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar 'cause my uncle told them to get me one, and I started fooling with it. Dion DiMucci

Me Guitar Cause Parents Uncle Fooling Never Songwriter Knew Know Singer Got Get Just Them Even Started

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life. Dion DiMucci

Life Darkest My Life Emotional Most Period

People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and I'd put myself up against anybody. Dion DiMucci

Myself People Guitar Magazine Records Never Had Put Know Been Up Hit Hit Records Anybody Against Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Played

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