Glenn Frey Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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

My songs grow on people - like warts. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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

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

Detroit ... where 'mother' is half a word. — Glenn Frey

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

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. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Glenn Frey

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

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

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. — Glenn Frey

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

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

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

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

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. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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. — Glenn Frey

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

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. — Glenn Frey

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

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

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

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

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. — Glenn Frey