The Best Glenn Frey quotes

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I’ve learned in my life that is of any value I’ve learned from women. — Glenn Frey

It’s a losing proposition, but one you can’t refuse. It’s the politics of contraband, it’s the smuggler’s blues. — Glenn Frey

Hey, a woman changed her mind–what else is new? — Glenn Frey

If we’re so awful and we’re so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad. — Glenn Frey

Hey, I didn’t make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did. — Glenn Frey

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I’d have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn’t be too bad. — Glenn Frey

It was a breakthrough song. It is my favorIte eagles record, if i ever had to pick one, It wouldn’t be ‘hotel california’; It wouldn’t be ‘take It easy.’ for me, It would be ‘one of these nights.’. — Glenn Frey

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don’t look nearly as old. — Glenn Frey

There are only those certain people where things click–at least for me. — Glenn Frey

I’m just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There’s no reason to dress my monster up. — Glenn Frey

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don’t be relegated to a certain category. — Glenn Frey

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They’ll both drive you crazy but if I’m going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it. — Glenn Frey

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music. — Glenn Frey

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money. — Glenn Frey

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan. — Glenn Frey

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California. — Glenn Frey

People don’t run out of dreams–people just run out of time. — Glenn Frey

I’m just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. — Glenn Frey

I won’t apologize for ticket prices. I think we’re well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney. — Glenn Frey

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass. — Glenn Frey

There’s another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls. — Glenn Frey

My songs grow on people–like warts. — Glenn Frey

Some people, they just don’t get a joke. — Glenn Frey

If you get a chance to be in a film, that’s great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley’s album, Building the Perfect Beast. — Glenn Frey

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they’re just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax. — Glenn Frey

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good–enough job, you become a band for all time. — Glenn Frey

That’s what I miss out of all this synthesized music–it starts to lose dynamics. — Glenn Frey

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with. — Glenn Frey

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill. — Glenn Frey

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody. — Glenn Frey

Detroit… where ‘mother’ is half a word. — Glenn Frey

If you’re writing songs by yourself, who’s going to tell you if it’s good or not? But if you’re writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback. — Glenn Frey

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience. — Glenn Frey

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we’re really learning. — Glenn Frey

I think that’s a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music. — Glenn Frey