Glenn Frey Quotes
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I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.
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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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If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.
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My songs grow on people - like warts.
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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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There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.
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I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
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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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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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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 great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.
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Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
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I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
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I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
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I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
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If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.
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Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
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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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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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If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.
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I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
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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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Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
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I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
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Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.
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That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
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People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.
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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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We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
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I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.
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