Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.
• There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.
• 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.
• That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
• Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
• Some people, they just don't get a joke.
• 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.
• It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?
• I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
• 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.
• 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 just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.
• My songs grow on people - like warts.
• I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
• Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
• 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.
• Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.