Colin Hay Quotes

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.
Colin Hay

Good, Pretty, Guitar

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

Character, Soul, Between

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Colin Hay

True, Remember, Wish

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.
Colin Hay

Change, Point, Jobs

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
Colin Hay

Life, Off, Walk

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

Different, Pretty, Musical

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.
Colin Hay

Famous, Yourself, Away

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

Famous, Career, Away

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.
Colin Hay

Mean, Career, Thought

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

Change, Hard, Found

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

I play in a lot of empty rooms.
Colin Hay

Play, Empty, Rooms

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.
Colin Hay

Used, Getting, Stop

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
Colin Hay

Music, Mother, Father

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

Love, Anyone, Hit

I've got a long-term plan.
Colin Hay

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.
Colin Hay

Beautiful, Rain, Angry

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.
Colin Hay

Power, Strong, Intentions

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

Through, Difficult, Worth

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
Colin Hay

Good, Great, Fun

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
Colin Hay

Remember, Couple, Tunes

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

Mother, Quite, Songs

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.'
Colin Hay

Time, Home, History

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.
Colin Hay

Work, Time, Good

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.
Colin Hay

Good, Live, Energy

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Nationality: Australian

Born: June 29, 1953

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