Glenn Frey Quotes

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

- Glenn Frey

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

- 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 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.

- Glenn Frey

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.

- 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

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

- Glenn Frey

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

- Glenn Frey

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

- Glenn Frey

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

- Glenn Frey

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

- Glenn Frey

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

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

- Glenn Frey

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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Glenn Frey

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

- 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.

- Glenn Frey

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

- Glenn Frey

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.

- Glenn Frey

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

- Glenn Frey

My songs grow on people - like warts.

- Glenn Frey