Musician Quotes

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I'm very much a family person.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I never really did any disco dancing.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

I don't want to live on past records.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.