Don Henley Quotes - Page 3

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• I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

  Don Henley

  Song, Artist, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Don Henley

  Song, Baby, Cows

  "If Dirt Were Dollars". Song by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, John David Souther, 1989.

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• Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

  Don Henley

  Fortune

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• 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

  Player, Stuff, Busier

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am an expert witness because I say I am.

  Don Henley

  Experts, Egotism, Witness

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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

  Don Henley

  Blessed, Voice, Sitting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

  Don Henley

  Party, Adolescence

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• 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.

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Kings, Tired

  "Song: 'The End of the Innocence'". 1989.

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

  Don Henley

  Wall, Bangs, Apathy

  Song: Inside Job, Album: Inside Job, 2000

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• I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

  Don Henley

  Writing, Men, Focus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

  Don Henley

  Art, Media, Littles

  Song: Damn It, Rose

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• Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

  Don Henley

  Sound, Tools, Machines

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

  Don Henley

  Education, Down And

  Song: Johnny Can't Read, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• 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

  Eagles, Retrospect, Realizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

  Don Henley

  Eagles, Critics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

  Don Henley

  Breakup, Careers, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was a pretty good year for predators.

  Don Henley

  Reality, Years, Good Years

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

  Don Henley

  Thinking, Ukulele, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

  Don Henley

  Relationship, Doors, Voice

  Song: The Heart of the Matter

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• I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

  Don Henley

  Singing, Body, Used

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Lying, Independent, Used

  "Music stars, reps clash in Congress over Napster" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. April 7, 2001.

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• Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

  Don Henley

  Song, Writing, Law

  "Don Henley of the Eagles accuses Frank Ocean of ‘stealing’ his song." by Cameron Adams, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. June 2, 2014.

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

  Don Henley

  Night, Band, Politics

  Song: Building the Perfect Beast, Album: Building the Perfect Beast

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• The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

  Don Henley

  Opportunity, Men, Land

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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