Don Henley
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.Collection: Hope
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.Collection: Legal
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Famous
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
Playing the drums hurts my back.
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.
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.
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.
I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don't know why.
I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.
I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
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.
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.
I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.
Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.
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.
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
I'm not on any crusade.
Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.Collection: Together
There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.Collection: Hurt
The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.Collection: Inspiring
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.Collection: Country
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy talesCollection: Warrior
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.Collection: Spiritual
The more I know, the less I understandCollection: Knows
It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.Collection: Jobs
I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.Collection: Quality
To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.Collection: Grace
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.Collection: Responsibility
Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.Collection: Relationship
Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.Collection: Confused
For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my ThanksgivingCollection: Joy
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.Collection: Desire
Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.Collection: Gun
How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.Collection: Reality
Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'Collection: Song
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.Collection: Wall
What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?Collection: Relationship