Joe Walsh
L.A. is kind of flat these days; I guess Austin and other places are like that now. But that's what I wanted to get across: You could be as crazy as you wanted, and that was OK. You didn't have to be good; people would still come and hear you.
I've been in all kinds of various arrangements of chain of command, and I was very comfortable - and everybody was - and I think the music shows that. I'm an honorary Foo Fighter, I guess. Or alumni or something. I'm proud to be one.
In the very early Seventies and the very late Sixties, nobody out here was originally from L.A.
My wife one time got a fishbone stuck in her throat and had to fly back to L.A. from Monte Carlo to have it taken out. I thought, 'Wow, what a great blues song!'
'Band Played On' is a good one. Barbara Orbison, who was Roy's wife, was involved in publishing in Nashville because she oversaw Roy's publishing, and she had a company in Nashville. She had a whole bunch of writers assembled, and they got together every day and wrote, and they write for everybody in Nashville.
There's a different feeling when you've played with musicians for 30 years. A lot of stuff doesn't even need to be said, especially onstage. We just read each other so well.
New Zealand is in my heart, always.
I was a fan of the group. I thought they were great - loved The Eagles - but I thought that their beautiful harmonies would sound amazing with some rock guitar behind them.
You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.Collection: Live Your Life
You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.Collection: Parent
The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.Collection: Moon
Inside the silence is a melody.Collection: Silence
I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.Collection: Party
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.Collection: Happiness
Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.Collection: Dog
You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.Collection: Technology
I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.Collection: Rocks
Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.Collection: Sky
(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.Collection: Real
If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.Collection: Jobs
Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.Collection: Independent
I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.Collection: Years
The song tells me what to play.Collection: Funny
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.Collection: Writing
We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.Collection: Night
With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.Collection: Mother
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.Collection: Song
It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.Collection: Years
Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.Collection: Numbers
Every # Veteran is a hero.Collection: Hero
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.Collection: Revenge
I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.Collection: Towns
My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive.Collection: Order
With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.Collection: Perspective
I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.Collection: Running
I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.Collection: Thinking