Colin Hay Quotes

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• I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
• I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
• I play in a lot of empty rooms.
• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos…
• I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
• In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's…
• I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...
• It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to…
• It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly…
• I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got…
• I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing…
• I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really…
• It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
• Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.
• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously…
• The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The…
• The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to…

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