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Favorite quotes from all members
My second thread and I’m hoping I’m not just reposting stuff that has been done 10 times before. I’ll start off with some nice sayings I know from Glenn, like “People don't run out of dreams, people just run out of time” and "I'm from Detroit - where mother is half a word". Then there’s Joe. “I can't complain, but sometimes I still do” comes to mind from Life’s Been Good, which could have been a quote by itself, but I would choose “If you just act like you know what you're doing, everybody thinks that you do”. It’s once again from a song but it’s so typical Joe. I also like the one in my signature, but I would rather call that random nonsense. I think you can tell now who’s my favorite Eagle… Yep, that’s right… Don Henley! But Joe comes second. Anyway, the line in Don’s My Thanksgiving sounds like a good one as well: “Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge”. But that’s pretty much it. I don’t even know for sure if anybody can come up with memorable Randy and Bernie quotes… I hope so!
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I've no idea if he's ever said it prolifically, but I enjoyed Joe's 'If I'd known I'd have to play this the rest of my life I would have written something else' before RMW at his Crossroads 2004 appearance.
Henley had a blinding quote about life in the Billy Joel interview he did recently, but for the life of me I can't remember what he said.
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From their musical quotes, I've always loved " you can see the stars and still not see the light, " and "So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key." From Already Gone
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That "probably can't find a Bernie or Randy quote" sounded a bit like a challenge so here we go.
I like this pithy Randy quote for its honesty - he was talking to an Associated Press reporter about the disappointing sales of his first solo album, which caused him to be unceremoniously dropped by his label:
"I probably had a lot of fans, but not as many as I probably needed."
Source: The Eagle Who Flew the Nest, 12/5/1980
Just kind of sums it up, doesn't he? No beating about the bush.
Here is Bernie in a letter to music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz, January 2016:
One thing I learned over the years about a songwriter expressing very personal feelings, is that it turns out that since all humans feel essentially the same feelings, but that most folks don't know how to express them, that when a songwriter talks about something very personal, it turns out to have universal appeal, because everyone can say "yeah! That's how I feel! He understands me like no one else!" So in a very counterintuitive way, it’s not the large general statement which has universal appeal, but rather the most intimate and personal which does.
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NightMistBlue
That "probably can't find a Bernie or Randy quote" sounded a bit like a challenge so here we go.
I like this pithy Randy quote for its honesty - he was talking to an Associated Press reporter about the disappointing sales of his first solo album, which caused him to be unceremoniously dropped by his label:
"I probably had a lot of fans, but not as many as I probably needed."
Source: The Eagle Who Flew the Nest, 12/5/1980
Just kind of sums it up, doesn't he? No beating about the bush.
Here is Bernie in a letter to music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz, January 2016:
One thing I learned over the years about a songwriter expressing very personal feelings, is that it turns out that since all humans feel essentially the same feelings, but that most folks don't know how to express them, that when a songwriter talks about something very personal, it turns out to have universal appeal, because everyone can say "yeah! That's how I feel! He understands me like no one else!" So in a very counterintuitive way, it’s not the large general statement which has universal appeal, but rather the most intimate and personal which does.
NMB, your quote from Bernie echoes the same sentiment about the personal nature of writing lyrics, which is expressed by Timothy B. Schmit in this quote, "When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience."
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One of my favourite quotes was actually a conversation as they were waiting around in a lobby somewhere.
Glenn - (reading a magazine article) "Hey Joe, it says here that humans only ever use about 75% of their total brain capacity"
Joe - "Wow! so what do they do with the other 3rd?" :rofl: :rofl:
or something like that..
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My favourite quote from Don is about Irving.
Don once said "He may be Satan but at least he's our Satan".
I love listening to Don's interviews as he is very eloquent and always is
very interesting.
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That Joe, what a joker. I loved his quip - jotted down by a Rolling Stone scribe when the Eagles were on tour, "Toronto's my lucky city. I met a girl there once that I didn't get the clap from."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz4CVFyazPu
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I love
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Besides, we can't be roguish underdogs anymore." Frey grins and flips a cigarette into his mouth. "We have to be gracious winners."
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Don of course, "I'm not the man I was and I'm not the man I'm going to be."
....and again, "the hole is just as important as the donut!" :)
LOVE HIM!!!!
....and my favourite lyrics, "there's three sides to every story, babe: there's yours and there's mine and the cold hard truth".
I also like Bernie's quip from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "I always wanted to be indicted", and you can hear Glenn shouting, "inducted!!!" Save
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Funk 50
One of my favourite quotes was actually a conversation as they were waiting around in a lobby somewhere.
Glenn - (reading a magazine article) "Hey Joe, it says here that humans only ever use about 75% of their total brain capacity"
Joe - "Wow! so what do they do with the other 3rd?" :rofl: :rofl:
or something like that..
This is just awesome. :rofl: And I'm not only talking about the smiley
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thelastresort
I've no idea if he's ever said it prolifically, but I enjoyed Joe's 'If I'd known I'd have to play this the rest of my life I would have written something else' before RMW at his Crossroads 2004 appearance.
Henley had a blinding quote about life in the Billy Joel interview he did recently, but for the life of me I can't remember what he said.
I recall him saying something about how life was difficult back then when he was young, yet it was simpler and happier than nowadays. I forgot the actual way he said it, but I think we are referring to the same thing. I have watched the whole interview some time ago (the most fun way to not be productive at all and waste a full day away). I guess it’s the price we all have to pay for being in an Eagly mood every now and then.
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Well let's see - here a couple that come to my mind at first thought ...
Joe says one of the scariest (or worst?) things that ever happened to him was that Keith Moon decided he liked him. :grin:
And one of my favorite Henley lyrics that must have quoted a hundred times on this board: "There's three sides to every story; there's yours and there's mine and the cold, hard truth".
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And I shouldn’t forget Glenn commenting on Joe joining the band: That's another adventure, because Joe was an interesting bunch of guys. :smile:
I believe it’s from the documentary.
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"Any rock & roll band is like a kindergarten class." Timothy.
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UndertheWire
"Any rock & roll band is like a kindergarten class." Timothy.
:hilarious: where did you find that?
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bluefeather
:hilarious: where did you find that?
An interview as part of the VH! Eagles Family Tree.
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Yep - I like that one. Another one of my favorite Timothy quotes is when he is actually quoting Don in the HFO DVD. He talks about him calling Don when he learned of the possible Eagles resumption. When he excitedly asked Don if it was true, Don replied that it was looking real good and then he asked Tim. "Are you puking?"
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Joe, when asked about the Frey/Henley vs Felder stuff..."sometimes nobody's wrong...there I did the best I could with that."
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Ive always been a dreamer
Yep - I like that one. Another one of my favorite Timothy quotes is when he is actually quoting Don in the HFO DVD. He talks about him calling Don when he learned of the possible Eagles resumption. When he excitedly asked Don if it was true, Don replied that it was looking real good and then he asked Tim. "Are you puking?"
That is my favorite line. I know on facebook, we use that line when we get good news or somebody is seeing a show or meeting one of the guys.
Only Eagles fans know what that means. Anybody else thinks we are crazy and actually puking. lol
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When an interviewer asked the guys about their wild days in the 70s, I always loved the answer Glenn give them. (Paraphrasing the quote) "We weren't bad as the Rolling Stones, but we weren't the Osmonds. We were somewhere in between" or something like. I don't know the correct quote.
The Osmonds are my other favorite group I loved for so many years before the Eagles took that spot(I'm still a huge fan of their music, but I put my energy in the Eagles). Its nice to know that Glenn knew about the Osmonds since they were around during the time the guys were making it bad. Everybody who listen to the Osmonds in the 70s(and even today), they always say they were a squeaky clean group who didn't do drugs or alcohol. So I guess he was saying they weren't angels like the Osmonds. I did bring that up to one of the Osmonds last year when I saw them in Missouri.
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My favorite quote is from Henley. He said "there is a fine line between the American dream and the American nightmare."
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Glenn.
"The best of times ranked in the 95 percentile and the worst of time ranked in the very small percentile that obviously everyone but the seven of us have dwelt on for a long long time."
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The Silk Scarf Monkey
And I shouldn’t forget Glenn commenting on Joe joining the band: That's another adventure, because Joe was an interesting bunch of guys. :smile:
I believe it’s from the documentary.
Other folks on this forum recalled that's how guitarist Danny Kortchmar described James Taylor. Apparently the reference is even older! Jazz musician Zoot Sims described legendary saxophonist Stan Getz as "a nice bunch of guys" as a consequence of his erratic behavior (i.e., he could be a dick, among other things).
Anyway, it's a great line. I'd steal it too.
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I really love this thread!
One of my favorite sayings of Joe's goes something like this ... 'If I had known I'd still be singing this song after all this time when I wrote it, I would have written something else'. :grin:
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Here's a new one from Timothy, in his Good Day interview in Sacramento for his Walk of Stars honor. It regards fan attention, and he says he's lucky because he's not like Mick Jagger or Paul McCartney, who can't go anywhere. He says he gets a little here and there, "Just enough to feed my ego, not enough to bug me."
Love it.
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From my previous post in the "Favorite Bernie sayings or moments" in the Bernie thread:
"You don't just leave him at the side of the road, half-burnt. That's not very cool."
"People have been killed in sight of the stage while the Stones were playing 'Sympathy for the Devil,' and everybody went 'this is a little not O.K.'"
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Master of understatement, isn't he? :) The first quote must be in reference to Gram.
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NightMistBlue
Master of understatement, isn't he? :) The first quote must be in reference to Gram.
Yeah. He really has that sort of Cali really-trying-hard-not-to-be-negative thing going on
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My favorite from Glenn:
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
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Glenn.
"The best of times ranked in the 95 percentile and the worst of time ranked in the very small percentile that obviously everyone but the seven of us have dwelt on for a long long time."
I like Glenn referencing the 7 of them...although I think this was said at the HOF induction.. Still sounds nice though.
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LovinGlennGirl
Joe, when asked about the Frey/Henley vs Felder stuff..."sometimes nobody's wrong...there I did the best I could with that."
Love that. I also heard him say he tried to stay out of it because it didn't involve him.
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Eagles7
I like Glenn referencing the 7 of them...although I think this was said at the HOF induction.. Still sounds nice though.
And now your username becomes clear :) Actually, more alert Forum members probably got it immediately, but I hadn't.
You may like this photo that I took last year in Lucy's El Adobe restaurant; it's from the HOF ceremony. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...psw8mebjuc.jpg
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That's a great picture, thanks for posting. I guess Joe signed it as it looks like his handwriting. Bernie is the only one wearing short sleeves. I seem to recall another picture where he's wearing shorts and everyone else is dressed for cold weather.
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One of my favorite from Bernie as he was reflecting on the early band in the HotE film ...
"I think everybody in the Eagles did the level best we could. You have to remember how young we were, the fact that nobody had anything when we started."
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And now your username becomes clear :) Actually, more alert Forum members probably got it immediately, but I hadn't.
You may like this photo that I took last year in Lucy's El Adobe restaurant; it's from the HOF ceremony.
NightMistBlue - yes, you're right about my name. I always have felt that the Eagles would never have been the Eagles as we know them without the contributions of all seven. I have two favorite lineups, but everyone played their part.
Also, I have seven children, so 7 has always been my lucky number.
Thank you so much for posting that picture. Maybe they all went out to eat together after the show. It's just nice to see them all together the night of the show, and a little sad to think that was the only time it happened...or would ever happen. I almost felt a little misty when I first saw it. It's quite a treasure! Thanks again.
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I would loved to have been in that room. I don't know I was always hoping that we would see the seven of them together again but now it will never happen again and I am great full we have it on tape forever.
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I was reading through the 1975 Rolling Stone interview and remembered this quote from Glenn that I always liked. I especially like the 'no one ever went broke...' line.
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Mass appeal is definitely suspect. Just look at our Grammy winners, Stevie Wonder excluded. Sometimes all that mass appeal means is that you simplified your equation down to the lowest common denominator. It’s a great temptation to think, ‘Well, f*** it, they’ll buy this. No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the mass public.'
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Glenn was quoting H.L. Mencken there, Jonny. Way before your time - mine too, even.
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I like Glenn's quote from Crawdaddy! magazine back in 1974:
“I’ve always felt there’s nowhere to go but down once you’ve reached the top, so I want to take just the right amount of time getting there.”