Top 40 Todd Rundgren Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.”

— Todd Rundgren

2. “Behind every tree there’s a new monster.”

— Todd Rundgren

3. “I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I’ll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.”

— Todd Rundgren

4. “If you went crazy, would you know it?”

— Todd Rundgren

5. “Look upon yourself only with compassion.”

— Todd Rundgren

6. “There must be a God because he made me.”

— Todd Rundgren

7. “I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.”

— Todd Rundgren

8. “I’ll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.”

— Todd Rundgren

9. “I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.”

— Todd Rundgren

10. “When you’re all alone, love one another.”

— Todd Rundgren

11. “Everyone has been a witness sometime – It doesn’t change it if you don’t believe.”

— Todd Rundgren

12. “The ultimate crime is not to care.”

— Todd Rundgren

13. “People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?”

— Todd Rundgren

14. “If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.”

— Todd Rundgren

15. “There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.”

— Todd Rundgren

16. “Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all.”

— Todd Rundgren

17. “Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.”

— Todd Rundgren

18. “They may be stupid, but they sure are fun.”

— Todd Rundgren

19. “Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it’s wheel.”

— Todd Rundgren

20. “One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.”

— Todd Rundgren

21. “I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?”

— Todd Rundgren

22. “Most people outside of America won’t get it. It’s the Easter bunny. It’s another lie and I don’t understand why we had to invent this character.”

— Todd Rundgren

23. “I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss’s head.”

— Todd Rundgren

24. “My senses tell me hubba.”

— Todd Rundgren

25. “People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It’s like you have to use auto-detuning or something.”

— Todd Rundgren

26. “I’ve got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else’. So there’s the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.”

— Todd Rundgren

27. “I guess country music works better in supermarkets.”

— Todd Rundgren

28. “As much as I’d like to be listening to other things, I can’t do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.”

— Todd Rundgren

29. “If you’re familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I’m not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don’t think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it’s me.”

— Todd Rundgren

30. “So I don’t think I’m gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.”

— Todd Rundgren

31. “And so it’s inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don’t examine closely the things they believe.”

— Todd Rundgren

32. “It’s the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you’re just living the same life that everybody else is living what’s the point?”

— Todd Rundgren

33. “I don’t have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I’ve always done things that didn’t necessarily fit the form. I’ve never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.”

— Todd Rundgren

34. “There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it’s possible, and invest their whole selves in that.”

— Todd Rundgren

35. “Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.”

— Todd Rundgren

36. “I’d like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.”

— Todd Rundgren

37. “Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.”

— Todd Rundgren

38. “Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.”

— Todd Rundgren

39. “The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.”

— Todd Rundgren

40. “Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.”

— Todd Rundgren

41. “It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I’m trying to sing with.”

— Todd Rundgren

42. “Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.”

— Todd Rundgren