Joe Walsh Quotes

You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

Inside the silence is a melody.

I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.

The song tells me what to play.

We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.

I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive.