Top 35 Glenn Frey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “People don’t run out of dreams – people just run out of time.”

— Glenn Frey

2. “There’s another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.”

— Glenn Frey

3. “Some people, they just don’t get a joke.”

— Glenn Frey

4. “I think that’s a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.”

— Glenn Frey

5. “People don’t care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That’s what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.”

— Glenn Frey

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6. “Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we’re really learning.”

— Glenn Frey

7. “It’s a losing proposition, but one you can’t refuse. It’s the politics of contraband, it’s the smuggler’s blues.”

— Glenn Frey

8. “We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.”

— Glenn Frey

9. “Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.”

— Glenn Frey

10. “I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.”

— Glenn Frey

11. “If you get a chance to be in a film, that’s great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley’s album, Building the Perfect Beast.”

— Glenn Frey

12. “I’m just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There’s no reason to dress my monster up.”

— Glenn Frey

13. “The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.”

— Glenn Frey

14. “Except for a few guitar chords, everything I’ve learned in my life that is of any value I’ve learned from women.”

— Glenn Frey

15. “I’m just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.”

— Glenn Frey

16. “Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.”

— Glenn Frey

17. “Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They’ll both drive you crazy but if I’m going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.”

— Glenn Frey

18. “I won’t apologize for ticket prices. I think we’re well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.”

— Glenn Frey

19. “Hey, I didn’t make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.”

— Glenn Frey

20. “It’s time to stop pretending that you’re somebody else. No, you can’t change this world, but you can change yourself.”

— Glenn Frey

21. “I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.”

— Glenn Frey

22. “Hey, a woman changed her mind – what else is new?”

— Glenn Frey

23. “If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.”

— Glenn Frey

24. “It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.”

— Glenn Frey

25. “If we’re so awful and we’re so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.”

— Glenn Frey

26. “The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don’t look nearly as old.”

— Glenn Frey

27. “If you’re writing songs by yourself, who’s going to tell you if it’s good or not? But if you’re writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.”

— Glenn Frey

28. “I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.”

— Glenn Frey

29. “There are only those certain people where things click – at least for me.”

— Glenn Frey

30. “That’s what I miss out of all this synthesized music – it starts to lose dynamics.”

— Glenn Frey

31. “My songs grow on people – like warts.”

— Glenn Frey

32. “I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.”

— Glenn Frey

33. “Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don’t be relegated to a certain category.”

— Glenn Frey

34. “I’ve read somewhere that when you’re writing, you should stop while you’re doing well so you always want to go back to work.”

— Glenn Frey

35. “I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I’d have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn’t be too bad.”

— Glenn Frey

36. “I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.”

— Glenn Frey