People don’t run out of dreams – people just run out of time.
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.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I’ve learned in my life that is of any value I’ve learned from women.
Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
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.
There’s another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don’t be relegated to a certain category.
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we’re really learning.
I’m just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There’s no reason to dress my monster up.
Hey, I didn’t make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.
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.
There are only those certain people where things click – at least for me.
I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
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.
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.