Colin Hay Quotes

• 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 good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

  Colin Hay

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• 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 a very angry sky.

  Colin Hay

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  Tags in Rained, Scotland

• There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

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  Tags in Destroying, Character

• Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

  Colin Hay

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  Tags in People, Remember

• 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 be told, make some kind of connection. I’ve always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

  Colin Hay

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  Tags in Myself, Great, Connection

• 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 how they see it.

  Colin Hay

  Topics in Power

  Tags in People, Intentions

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

  Colin Hay

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  Tags in Remember, Honest

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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