Don Henley Quotes
"I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of."
- Don Henley
(Related: Eagles)
"I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company."
- Don Henley
(Related: Business, Company, Right)
"I'm not on any crusade."
- Don Henley
"It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers."
- Don Henley
(Related: Careers, Famous, Pretty)
"Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true."
- Don Henley
(Related: Forget, Will, Wind, Word)
"Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom."
- Don Henley
(Related: Lies, Solution)
"Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was."
- Don Henley
(Related: Successful)
"Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up."
- Don Henley
(Related: Selling, First, Will)
"I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough."
- Don Henley
(Related: Pretty, Voice)
"Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools."
- Don Henley
(Related: Machines, Sound, Tools)
"I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him."
- Don Henley
(Related: Care, Listening)
"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back."
- Don Henley
(Related: Hope, Blind, Idealism)
"I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house."
- Don Henley
"I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable."
- Don Henley
(Related: People, Right)
"I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well."
- Don Henley
(Related: First, Play, Pretty)
"I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record."
- Don Henley
(Related: First)
"I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on."
- Don Henley
(Related: Men, Politics, Religion, Women, Ecology, Focus, Interest, Relationships)
"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."
- Don Henley
(Related: Artists, Eagles, Mind, Past, Songs)
"I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don't know why."
- Don Henley
(Related: People, Eagles, Play, Songs)
"I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play."
- Don Henley
(Related: Play)
"Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint."
- Don Henley
(Related: Gain, Song)
"A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun."
- Don Henley
(Related: Man)
"The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time."
- Don Henley
(Related: Time, Eagles, Ending, Now)
"The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends."
- Don Henley
(Related: Eagles, Friends)
"I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment."
- Don Henley
(Related: Body, Singing)
"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge."
- Don Henley
(Related: Light)