Huey Lewis famous quotes

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
-- Huey Lewis

#Heart #Long #Choices

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
-- Huey Lewis

#Greatness #Thinking #Play

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.
-- Huey Lewis

#Heart #Boys #Rocks

I'm happy to be stuck with you.
-- Huey Lewis

#Stuck #Misinterpretation

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.
-- Huey Lewis

#Guy #Bay Area

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
-- Huey Lewis

#Home #Track #Office

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
-- Huey Lewis

#San Francisco #Paradise #Natural

It's true, I do like cheering people up.
-- Huey Lewis

#Cheer #People

The choices I make - they have to be creative.
-- Huey Lewis

#Choices #Creative #Be Creative

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
-- Huey Lewis

#Play #Feelings #Pockets

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
-- Huey Lewis

#Sports #Fall #June

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?
-- Huey Lewis

#Good Life #Needs #Records

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.
-- Huey Lewis

#School #Engineering #Class

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
-- Huey Lewis

#Sports #Albums #Records

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
-- Huey Lewis

#Sports #Years #Land

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
-- Huey Lewis

#Records #Radio #Able

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.
-- Huey Lewis

#Couple #Work #Missing

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
-- Huey Lewis

#Religious #Climbing #Religion

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.
-- Huey Lewis

#Running #Religious #Men

Take it from me, its hip to be square.
-- Huey Lewis

#Squares #Advice #Hips

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
-- Huey Lewis

#Thank God #Larks #Film

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
-- Huey Lewis

#Thinking #Age #Three

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.
-- Huey Lewis

#Thinking #Tables #Enough

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
-- Huey Lewis

#Chicago #Shows

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.
-- Huey Lewis

#Names #Guarantees #May

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
-- Huey Lewis

#Song #Cutting #Today

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.
-- Huey Lewis

#Song #New York #Inspiration

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.
-- Huey Lewis

#Kissing #First Kiss #Firsts

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
-- Huey Lewis

#Love #Rocks #Vintage

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.
-- Huey Lewis

#Relationship #Drinking #Thinking

I'm a tired runner in the human race.
-- Huey Lewis

#Tired #Reality #Race

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.
-- Huey Lewis

#Feet #Sick #Car

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.
-- Huey Lewis

#Love #Men #White

I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.
-- Huey Lewis

#Love You #Shoes #Infidelity

Sometimes bad is bad.
-- Huey Lewis

#Sometimes #Adages

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
-- Huey Lewis

#Song #Stars #Writing