Song Quotes by Mick Hucknall

Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.

— Mick Hucknall

For a frontman of a band, good hair is a requisite.

— Mick Hucknall

I'm going to write music that's appropriate to my age. And if younger people want to come along with me, they're welcome…

— Mick Hucknall

I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red,…

— Mick Hucknall

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing…

— Mick Hucknall

I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.

— Mick Hucknall

As I've gotten older I've got more bass in my voice but also because I don't talk very much during the day…

— Mick Hucknall

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall

Otis Redding was the ultimate 60s soul singer. We only get an indication of what he might have become, but he had…

— Mick Hucknall

Whatever the means of delivery, whatever the technological and corporate structures, music will always be about groups of talented individual performers communicating…

— Mick Hucknall

I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some…

— Mick Hucknall

At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting…

— Mick Hucknall

Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think…

— Mick Hucknall

Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a…

— Mick Hucknall

I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I…

— Mick Hucknall

I must have been six or seven - standing in front of a full-length mirror with a yardstick, pretending to be John…

— Mick Hucknall

When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music...…

— Mick Hucknall