Don Henley Quotes

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

It was a pretty good year for predators.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

Don't look back, you can never look back

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.