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Colin Hay Quotes

Australian - Musician | June 29, 1953 -

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

Love Believe Like Hit Record Says

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

Change People Perception You Hard

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

Listening Think Worth You Difficult

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

Play Empty Lot Rooms

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.

Good Live Energy You Go Out

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

Famous You Career Know Away Just

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

Change Think Point Going Jobs

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.

Me Better Doing Stop Drink Used

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.

People Thought You Career Know Mean

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

Mother Songs Quite Lot Features

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.

Work Good Time Men Me Think

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.

Yourself Start Famous Doing You Go

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