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Top 25 Colin Hay Quotes (2025 Update)

Colin Hay Quote: “There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.”

1. “There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.”

Colin Hay Quote: “I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...”

2. “I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...”

Colin Hay Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it’s one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.”

4. “I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it’s one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.”

Colin Hay Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.”

7. “I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.”

Colin Hay Quote: “It’s frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it’s just so difficult to cut through.”

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

Colin Hay Quote: “My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.”

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

Colin Hay Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “I just found over the years that it’s very hard to change people’s perception of what it is that you do.”

12. “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 Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “I sit around and play acoustic guitar – usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.”

14. “I sit around and play acoustic guitar – usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.”

Colin Hay Quote: “I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.”

15. “I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.”

Colin Hay Quote: “I play in a lot of empty rooms.”

16. “I play in a lot of empty rooms.”

Colin Hay Quote: “I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It’s usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.”

17. “I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It’s usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.”

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

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

Colin Hay Quote: “I do like writing songs in a band. When it’s rock, it’s such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.”

19. “I do like writing songs in a band. When it’s rock, it’s such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.”

Colin Hay Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “I just want to be a better guitar player, really.”

21. “I just want to be a better guitar player, really.”

Colin Hay Quote: “Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.”

22. “Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.”

Colin Hay Quote: “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.”

23. “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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Colin Hay Quote: “I’d love to have a hit record. I don’t believe anyone that says they wouldn’t like that.”

24. “I’d love to have a hit record. I don’t believe anyone that says they wouldn’t like that.”

Colin Hay Quote: “I find that, rather than the cities, I’m very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.”

25. “I find that, rather than the cities, I’m very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.”

Colin Hay Quote: “Sometimes there’s a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.”

26. “Sometimes there’s a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.”

Colin Hay Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Colin Hay Quote: “You don’t want to get worse at something.”

28. “You don’t want to get worse at something.”

Colin Hay Quote: “I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.”

29. “I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.”

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