Glenn Frey Quotations

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.

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.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

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.

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

My songs grow on people - like warts.

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.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

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.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

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.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

Thank you everybody, and welcome to the Eagles California Tour, ... on a hot and sultry night in Salinas.

It's the lure of easy money, It's got a very strong appeal.

I like it here. It's kind of like playing off-Broadway.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

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.

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.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

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.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass...

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

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.

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.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.