Steve Winwood famous quotes

03-30-2025

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.
-- Steve Winwood

#School #Sunday #College
Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
-- Steve Winwood

#Way #Mathematical #Music Is
In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.
-- Steve Winwood

#Song #Feelings #Fantasy
The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.
-- Steve Winwood

#Writing #Numbers #People
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
-- Steve Winwood

#Writing #Years #Kind
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.
-- Steve Winwood

#Thinking #People #Responsible
If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
-- Steve Winwood

#Mistake #Bars #Drummer
When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.
-- Steve Winwood

#Heart #Night #Poetry
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
-- Steve Winwood

#Dream #Mean #Men
Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
-- Steve Winwood

#Networking #Rubbish
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
-- Steve Winwood

#Music #Passion #Discipline
The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
-- Steve Winwood

#Inspirational #Golden #Dance Life
Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.
-- Steve Winwood

#Giving #Listening #Doe
I'm the same boy I used to be.
-- Steve Winwood

#Boys #Used
Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
-- Steve Winwood

#Stars #Heart #Love Is
Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving
-- Steve Winwood

#Moving #Luck #Keep Moving
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.
-- Steve Winwood

#Rocks #Done #World
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
-- Steve Winwood

#Thinking #Unanswered Questions #Higher
What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.
-- Steve Winwood

#Selfish #Philosophy #Black
If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.
-- Steve Winwood

#Dream #Philosophy #Way
While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.
-- Steve Winwood

#Romance #Fake #Chance
One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
-- Steve Winwood

#Men #Fire #Light
Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
-- Steve Winwood

#Half #Politics #Easy
The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.
-- Steve Winwood

#Dream #Spiritual #Stars
Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.
-- Steve Winwood

#Inspirational #Laughter #Rivers
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
-- Steve Winwood

#Thinking #Rocks #People
Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.
-- Steve Winwood

#Mind #Thrones #Stools

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