Elmore Quotes

We knew (the Beatles) by then and we were rehearsing and Andrew brought Paul and John down to the rehearsal. They said they had this tune, they were really hustlers then. I mean the way they used to hustle tunes was great: Hey Mick, we`ve got this great song. So they played I Wanna Be Your Man and we thought it sounded pretty commercial, which is what we were looking for, so we did it like Elmore James or something. I haven`t heard it for ages but it must be pretty freaky `cause nobody really produced it... It was completely crackers, but it was a hit and sounded great onstage.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

We had that sort of common-roots background, ... He`s from Blue Earth, Minnesota, and I`m from Elmore, Minnesota, two little towns on the Iowa border. ... I had seen him operate for many years as a journalist. I knew he was good and I knew reporters respected him, which is a big thing in that job.