Musician Quotes

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.