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It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

You're driving with your eyes closed.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Arm chair warriors often fail.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

What the head makes cloudy
the heart makes clear

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it.
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray ...

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I'm not on any crusade.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we elected king.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.