Best Don Henley Quotes & Sayings

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. — Keith Urban

O' beautiful for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie
But I know a place where we can go
And wash away this sin
We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
And the tall grass wave in the wind
Just lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair spill all around me
Offer up your best defence
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence — Don Henley

I'm looking forward to getting older. I look at people like Peter Gabriel and Sting and even Tom Petty, Don Henley. People that didn't lose it. I'm hopefully going to join that club. — Brandon Flowers

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out. — Don Henley

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him. — Don Henley

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train. — Don Henley

I'm not on any crusade. — Don Henley

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images. — Beth Henley

Arm chair warriors often fail. — Don Henley

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun. — Don Henley

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. — Don Henley

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. — Don Henley

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. — Don Henley

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him ... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.' — Don Henley

The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry. — Don Henley

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. — Don Henley

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint. — Don Henley

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house. — Don Henley

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. — Don Henley

I have confidence in my personality, because I think that if I talk to people hopefully they will like me, but I don't have confidence in my body. — Georgie Henley

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to. — Don Henley

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. — Don Henley

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. — Don Henley

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. — Don Henley

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach. — Don Henley

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God. — Don Henley

Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it. — J. D. Souther

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one. — Don Henley

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. — Beth Henley

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you. — Don Henley

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough. — Don Henley

It was a pretty good year for predators. — Don Henley

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks. — Don Henley

Henley - " She reached for him, but he eluded her grasp. "I don't want you to go."
"No, you want to be the one who leaves. That's how it works, right? You go whenever you're ready. And to hell with what I'm ready for. — Sarah Cross

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play. — Don Henley

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. — Mojo Nixon