Don Henley Quotes

• The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

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• The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

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• Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

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• 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.

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• Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

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

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• Playing the drums hurts my back.

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

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

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• It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don’t survive in solo careers.

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• I’m not on any crusade.

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• I’m fortunate that I’ve been in this business long enough that I’ve earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

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• I’m certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I’m quite proud of.

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

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

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

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

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• I played drums on Keith Carradine’s first record.

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• 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.

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• I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

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Don Henley (27)

Birth:	22nd July, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Drummer, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Donald Hugh "Don" Henley was born in Gilmer, Texas. He is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful solo career. The Eagles have sold over 150 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards. In 2008, he was ranked as the 87th greatest singer of all time by the Rolling Stone magazine.

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