The Eagles Quotes
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I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
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There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
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People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.
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I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.
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I'm trying not to speculate. A lot of people are speculating wildly about what happened and then in an e-mail you find out it's wrong.
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If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.
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Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.
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Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
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Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
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So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
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Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.
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It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
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The more I know, the less I understand...
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I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.
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I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.
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That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
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I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.
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I've been learning to live without you now But I miss you sometimes The more I know, the less I understand All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning them again.
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I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.
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I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
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O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence
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I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
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Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.
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Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
