Glenn Frey Quotes

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

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• Hey, a woman changed her mind – what else is new?

  Glenn Frey

• The 18 million people that bought it did.

  Glenn Frey

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

  Glenn Frey

• I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I’d have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn’t be too bad.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Glenn Frey

• 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.

  Glenn Frey

• It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they’re just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

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• It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

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• My songs grow on people – like warts.

  Glenn Frey

• Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

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• Some people, they just don’t get a joke.

  Glenn Frey

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

  Glenn Frey

• That’s what I miss out of all this synthesized music – it starts to lose dynamics.

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• The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

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Glenn Frey (22)

Birth:	6th November, 1948
Death:	18th January, 2016
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Glenn Lewis Frey was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Eagles. He was lead singer and frontman for the Eagles, roles he came to share with his partner, Don Henley. Frey and Henley wrote most of the Eagles' back catalog. He released his debut album, No Fun Aloud, in 1982 and went on to record Top 40 hits "The One You Love", "Smuggler's Blues", "Sexy Girl", "The Heat Is On", "You Belong to the City", "True Love", "Soul Searchin'" and "Livin' Right". As a member of the Eagles, he won six Grammy Awards, and five American Music Awards. His albums list shown below: No Fun Aloud, The Allnighter, After Hours, Strange Weather, and Soul Searchin'.

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