Latest Colin Hay Quotes from Interviews

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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

  Song, Play, Kind

• I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

  Colin Hay

  Song, Writing, Rocks

• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Sometimes

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

  Colin Hay

  Get Better, Trying, Want

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Always Trying

• You don't want to get worse at something.

  Colin Hay

  Want

• 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

  Guitar, Play, Ideas

• I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

  Colin Hay

  Song, Writing, Feel Good

• 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

  Song, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  West Coast, World, My Favorite

• 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

  Cities, Lucky, Kind