Colin Hay Quotes

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
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.
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.
Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
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.
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
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.
I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
I play in a lot of empty rooms.
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.
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.
I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
I've got a long-term plan.
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.
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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