J.M. Frey Quotes

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

My songs grow on people - like warts.

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.