Colin Hay Quotes

• Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it’s a place where people go to find something – to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

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• 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 go out to shows anymore. So it’s good if you can attract a younger audience because they’ve got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.

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• 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 thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

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• 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 and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

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• 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 to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought – bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

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• 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 to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that’s what I’ve been doing.

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• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

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• I’ve got a long-term plan.

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• I’d love to have a hit record. I don’t believe anyone that says they wouldn’t like that.

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• I play in a lot of empty rooms.

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• I just found over the years that it’s very hard to change people’s perception of what it is that you do.

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• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

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• I don’t walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

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• I don’t think I’m going to change jobs at this point.

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• I can’t remember too much about the ’80s, to be honest with you… I wish that weren’t true, but it is.

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• It’s frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it’s just so difficult to cut through.

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• 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 doing shows.

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• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

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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.

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• 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 made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch ‘Top Chef’, ‘Project Runway’, and ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.’

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Colin Hay (27)

Birth:	29th June, 1953
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Guitarist, Singer

About

Colin James Hay was born in Kilwinning, Scotland, United Kingdom. He is a Scottish born Australian guitarist, singer and actor who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. In 2004 he contributed to the Garden State soundtrack with his solo song "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You". Hay contributed music to the TV series Scrubs in the course of a number of episodes, including on-camera performances. Hay released his 10th album, "American Sunshine", on 18 August 2009 on Compass Records.

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