Colin Hay Quotes

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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.

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  Years, People, Perception

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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.

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  Mean, Years, Careers

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• I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold.

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  Jesus, Talking

  Song: Beautiful World, Album: Going Somewhere, 2003

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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.

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  Song, Play, Kind

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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.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Listening

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• There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

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  Character, Soul, Lines

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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.

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  Running, Strong, People

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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.

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  Song, Writing, Rocks

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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.

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  Drinking, Used, Shows

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• I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

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  Believe, Records, Don't Believe

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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.

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  Guitar, Singing, Sitting

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• Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

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  Get Better, Trying, Want

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• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Song, Features

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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.

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  Home, People, Watches

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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.

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  Song, Men, Thinking

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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.

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  Writing, Ideas, Sometimes

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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.

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  Energy, Get Up, Sofas

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• Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

  Colin Hay

  Couple, People, Tunes

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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.

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  Dust, Years, Goes On

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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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Always Trying

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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.

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  Fun, Writing, Men

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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.

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  Beautiful, Rain, Sky

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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.

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  Mother, Father, Guitar

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• I play in a lot of empty rooms.

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  Empty Rooms, Play, Rooms

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• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

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  Player, Guitar, Want

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