American - Musician | July 22, 1947 -
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
Don Henley
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I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
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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.
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I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.
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I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
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I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.
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I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.
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I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
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I'm not on any crusade.
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It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
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Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
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Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
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