129 Quotes by Don Henley

The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It’s interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry.

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.

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

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that’s usually what I focus on.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don’t look back, you can never look back.

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions...

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn’t ring true.

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

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