Quotes by Glenn Frey

About Glenn Frey:

Glenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Frey played guitar with Eagles as well as piano and keyboards and sang lead vocals on many Eagles hits such as "Take It Easy", "Peaceful Easy Feeling", "Tequila Sunrise", "Already Gone", "Lyin' Eyes", "New Kid in Town", and "Heartache Tonight".
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I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

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

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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.

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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.

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I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

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

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My songs grow on people - like warts.

Glenn Frey

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

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Some people, they just don't get a joke.

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

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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.

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There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

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Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameGlenn Frey
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornNovember 6, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer; Pianist; Actor; Musician