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The song tells me what to play.
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I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.
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Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.
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It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.
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Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
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It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
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When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".
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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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For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving...
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When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
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I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.
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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 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.
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Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
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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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We played great all weekend and the kids played hard. It was a good weekend; I am proud of our team and our effort.
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You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.
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Arm chair warriors often fail.
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The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.
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I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
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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.
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Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
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We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.
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The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.