Music Quotes

If fidelity really mattered, 'Loveless' wouldn't be one of the best records of all time.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.