Colin Hay Quotes

• I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

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  Years, People, Perception

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• I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold.

  Colin Hay

  Jesus, Talking

  Song: Beautiful World, Album: Going Somewhere, 2003

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• I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

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  Mean, Years, Careers

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• I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

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  Song, Play, Kind

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• It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Listening

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• There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

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  Character, Soul, Lines

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• It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

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  Running, Strong, People

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• A medida que uno envejece no quiere limitarse a hacer lo mismo, porque si no, no tiene mucho sentido. Creo que es más o menos tratar de escribir cosas que, tal vez, digan más haciendo
  o siempre estás intentando refinar las cosas, hacerlas un poco más simples, un poco más esenciales.

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  Writing, Thinking, Always Trying

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• I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

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  Drinking, Used, Shows

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• I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

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  Believe, Records, Don't Believe

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• In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

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  Guitar, Singing, Sitting

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• I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

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  Canción, Escritura, Rocas

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• I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.

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  Escribir, pensar, jugar

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• I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

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  Musical, Style, Different

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• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

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  Careers, Erratic, Minutes

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• Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

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  Get Better, Trying, Want

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• The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.

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  Energy, Get Up, Sofas

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• The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

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  Canción, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

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  Home, People, Watches

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• You don't want to get worse at something.

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  Desea

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• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

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  Mother, Song, Features

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• La mayoría de la gente me recuerda por un par de canciones.

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  Couple, People, Tunes

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• In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

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  Beautiful, Rain, Sky

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• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

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  Player, Guitar, Want

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• Fui muy famoso durante un minuto y luego todo se esfumó, ¿sabes? Y durante los últimos 20 años, tienes que levantarte, sacudirte el polvo y seguir tu alegre camino y empezar de nuevo, en cierto sentido, y eso es lo que he estado haciendo.

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  Dust, Years, Goes On

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