Leon Russell Quotes

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

The Congress also passed legislation authorizing the sale of beer in such states as desired. This has already resulted in considerable reemployment and, incidentally, has provided much needed tax revenue.

The State may, indeed, make the drinking of one drop of liquor an offense to be punished by imprisonment, but it would be an unheard-of cruelty if it should count the drops in a single glass and make thereby a thousand offenses, and thus extend the punishment for drinking the single glass of liquor to any imprisonment of almost indefinite duration.

An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the City of Annapolis, or within five miles thereof, to minors and people of color.

I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.

I hear how Drew Barrymore grew up going to the bars - I was never allowed.

I don't care about the drinking, I just want to be able to go hang out and not have to worry about being too young.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

I drink every night. But I don't hang out and party. Not that I'm selling out Madison Square Garden, but in the old days after a show you could hang out with a few people. But now you're hanging around with 20 people, all of whom don't know each other, and they're all, "Leave my outgoing greeting on my voice mail, man, come on!"