Gene Pitney Quotes

Gene Pitney — American Musician born on February 17, 1941,

Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and sound engineer... (wikipedia)

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light...' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.

Gene Pitney Quotes

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