Colin Hay Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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

  Colin Hay

  Song, Writing, Feel Good

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Fun, Writing, Men

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