Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

Timothy B. Schmit The Eagles

• Bass Player
• Glenn Frey
• The Eagles

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• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

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• I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.

  

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• My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

  

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• In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

  

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• I would never watch 'Lost' on TV; I'd just wait until I could get at least five or six episodes in a row. Saved myself a lot of anxiety that way.

  

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• I've been in the 'Idol' bubble, and now it's popped, and I don't know what's going to happen.

  

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• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

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• When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

  

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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  

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• I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.

  

  Anne Boleyn
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• Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

  

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• If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

  

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  

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• I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

  

  Timothy B. Schmit The Eagles
  • Bass Player
  • Glenn Frey
  • The Eagles