All Colin Hay Quotes
- I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth. Comfortable
- I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do. Change
- I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? All
- I just want to be a better guitar player, really. Better
- I play in a lot of empty rooms. Empty
- 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… Brought
- I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that. Anyone
- 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… Always Raining
- I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold... 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… Always Fancied
- 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… Adjusting
- 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… All
- 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… Bit
- 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… Better
- It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. Albums
- Most people remember me for a couple of tunes. Couple
- My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs. Features
- 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… All
- 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… Always Going
- 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… Anymore
- In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty… Acoustic
- There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. Building
- I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is. 80s