Quotes by Colin Hay - Page 1

I've got a long-term plan.
Colin Hay / Musician
Long Term
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I play in a lot of empty rooms.
Colin Hay / Musician
Empty
Empty Rooms
Play
Rooms
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You don't want to get worse at something.
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Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
Colin Hay / Musician
Couple
People
Remember Me
Tunes
Me Remember People
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I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
Colin Hay / Musician
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Want
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I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.
Colin Hay / Musician
Jobs
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I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold.
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Jesus
Talking
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My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.
Colin Hay / Musician
Features
Mother
Song
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I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.
Colin Hay / Musician
Feel Good
Song
Writing
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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Colin Hay / Musician
Building
Character
Destroying
Fine
Lines
Soul
Fine Line
Line
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I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
Colin Hay / Musician
Believe
Don't Believe
Records
Hit Record
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I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
Colin Hay / Musician
Add
Life My Life Way
Life Walk My Life
Weeks
Encore
Figure
Walk
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I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.
Colin Hay / Musician
Kind
Play
Song
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Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.
Colin Hay / Musician
Get Better
Trying
Want
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I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
Colin Hay / Musician
Rocks
Song
Writing
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I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
Colin Hay / Musician
Famous
Careers
Erratic
Minutes
Minute
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I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.
Colin Hay / Musician
My Favorite
West Coast
World
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I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Colin Hay / Musician
To Be Honest
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
Colin Hay / Musician
People
Perception
Years
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I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
Colin Hay / Musician
Different
Melody
Musical
Rhythm
Style
Forth
Styles
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It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
Colin Hay / Musician
Cutting
Frustrating
Listening
Thinking
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I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.
Colin Hay / Musician
Drink
Drinking
Replaced
Shows
Used
Me Better Doing
Better Me Doing
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In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.
Colin Hay / Musician
Angry
Beautiful
Rain
Scotland
Sky
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It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
Colin Hay / Musician
Running
Adjusting
Bunch
People
Strikes
Strong
Power World Me
Exactly
Intentions
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I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
Colin Hay / Musician
Coast
Father
Guitar
Mother
Mother And Father
Scotland
West
West Coast
Brought
Drums
Guitars
Shop
Pianos
Southwest
Surrounded
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I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.
Colin Hay / Musician
Cities
Kind
Lucky
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In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.
Colin Hay / Musician
Acoustic Guitar
Groove
Guitar
Reggae
Singing
Sitting
Acoustic
Finding
Pretty Good
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I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.
Colin Hay / Musician
Ideas
Sometimes
Writing
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I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.
Colin Hay / Musician
Guitar
Ideas
Play
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I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
Colin Hay / Musician
Careers
Erratic
Mean
Melbourne
Odd
Strange
Years
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I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.
Colin Hay / Musician
Dust
Goes On
Merry
Years
Minute
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It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
Colin Hay / Musician
Men
Doubt
Fun
Writing
Good Great Myself
Anyone Else
Connection
Pretend
Fancied
Great Fun
Leading
Leading Man
Piece
Sees
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The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
Colin Hay / Musician
Audience
Energy
Get Up
Sofas
Younger
Anymore
Attract
Older
Sofa
Tend
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The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.
Colin Hay / Musician
Men
Song
Thinking
Time Work Good
Anymore
Work Time Good
Good Thing
Stays
Test
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As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
Colin Hay / Musician
Always Trying
Thinking
Writing
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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
Colin Hay / Musician
California
Heartache
Heroism
Mythological
Real Place
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
Colin Hay / Musician
Home
People
Watches
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'
Colin Hay / Musician
Boring
Changed
Chef
Runway
Shelter
Extreme
Began
Clothing
Edition
Project
Makeover
Obviously
People Say
Top
Top Chef
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I suppose ever since I was about 14, I remember listening to "Sgt. Pepper's," and I remember thinking, "how do you possibly write songs like that?" I remember starting to try and write songs around that age, but just sitting around with an acoustic guitar, and try to come up with ideas for songs, and that's just what I've done ever since. I just never really stopped doing that, I suppose.
Colin Hay / Musician
Song
Thinking
Writing
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I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.
Colin Hay / Musician
Play
Thinking
Writing
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