Joe Walsh Quotes & Sayings

I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles. — Joe Walsh

The song tells me what to play. — Joe Walsh

I can't complain,
But sometimes I still do. — Joe Walsh

(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation. — Joe Walsh

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason. — Joe Walsh

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. — Joe Walsh

I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door. — Joe Walsh

I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good. — Joe Walsh

I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years. — Joe Walsh

Every veteran is a hero. — Joe Walsh

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there. — Joe Walsh

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had. — Joe Walsh

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear. — Joe Walsh

Inside the silence is a melody. — Joe Walsh

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy. — Joe Walsh

You know, there's a philosopher who says, As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it's overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don't. — Joe Walsh

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky. — Joe Walsh

I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign. — Joe Walsh

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard. — Joe Walsh

Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes. — Joe Walsh

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me. — Joe Walsh

We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long. — Joe Walsh

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth. — Joe Walsh

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. — Joe Walsh

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. — Joe Walsh

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress. — Joe Walsh

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement. — Joe Walsh

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three. — Joe Walsh