Huey Lewis Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy to be stuck with you. — Huey Lewis

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago. — Huey Lewis

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise. — Huey Lewis

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.' — Huey Lewis

It's true, I do like cheering people up. — Huey Lewis

I'm a tired runner in the human race. — Huey Lewis

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately? — Huey Lewis

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state. — Huey Lewis

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart. — Huey Lewis

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table. — Huey Lewis

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better. — Huey Lewis

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. — Huey Lewis

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell. — Huey Lewis

Hot lovin' every night. — Huey Lewis

I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed. — Huey Lewis

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office. — Huey Lewis

The choices I make - they have to be creative. — Huey Lewis

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time. — Huey Lewis

Sometimes bad is bad. — Huey Lewis

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world. — Huey Lewis

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it! — Huey Lewis

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented. — Huey Lewis

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful. — Huey Lewis

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand. — Huey Lewis

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star — Huey Lewis

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it. — Huey Lewis

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off. — Huey Lewis

You've been thinking and I've been drinking. — Huey Lewis

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love. — Huey Lewis

I am a Bay Area guy, no question. — Huey Lewis

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s. — Huey Lewis

Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record, our record label, Chrysalis Records was afraid that we'd be sued by American Express. — Huey Lewis

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period. — Huey Lewis

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating. — Huey Lewis

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York. — Huey Lewis

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick. — Huey Lewis

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio. — Huey Lewis

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies. — Huey Lewis

Take it from me, its hip to be square. — Huey Lewis

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller. — Huey Lewis

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted. — Huey Lewis

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. — Huey Lewis