Australian - Musician | June 29, 1953 -
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
BeautifulRainSkyAngryAlways
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.
FatherMotherMusicUpWest Coast
I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
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Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
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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.
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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.
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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
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I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
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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.
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I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
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I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
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