Don Henley Quotes

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

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

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

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness... forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore.

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.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

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

What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

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.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

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.

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

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

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

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

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

The more I know, the less I understand

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

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

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

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

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

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

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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