Glenn Frey Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's time to stop pretending that you're somebody else. No, you can't change this world, but you can change yourself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My songs grow on people - like warts.

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

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

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.

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.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.