Graham Nash famous quotes

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.
-- Graham Nash

#Beautiful #Heart #Perfect

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
-- Graham Nash

#Writing #Action

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
-- Graham Nash

#War #Kids #Humanity

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
-- Graham Nash

#Musical #Different #Band

I'm curious about life, period.
-- Graham Nash

#Curious #Periods

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
-- Graham Nash

#Song #Thinking #Longevity

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
-- Graham Nash

#Long #Discouraged #Critics

With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.
-- Graham Nash

#Strong #Want #Way

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
-- Graham Nash

#Nice #Artist #People

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
-- Graham Nash

#Country #Issues #People

Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
-- Graham Nash

#Men #Giving

There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
-- Graham Nash

#Writing #Opportunity #Ongoing

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.
-- Graham Nash

#Writing #People #Difficult

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
-- Graham Nash

#Numbers #Guy #Hollies

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
-- Graham Nash

#Past #Long #People

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
-- Graham Nash

#Dream #Children #Love You

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
-- Graham Nash

#Song #Six #Seven

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.
-- Graham Nash

#Song #Mean #Simple

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
-- Graham Nash

#War #People #Important

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
-- Graham Nash

#Hollies #Listening #Stuff

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.
-- Graham Nash

#World #Digital

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.
-- Graham Nash

#People

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.
-- Graham Nash

#Years #Alive #Fantastic

My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.
-- Graham Nash

#Encouragement #Grateful #Parent

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.
-- Graham Nash

#Insane #Obsession #Stills

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.
-- Graham Nash

#Children #Party #Sleep

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
-- Graham Nash

#Song #Mind #Albums

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.
-- Graham Nash

#Doors #Needs #World

There is a great correlation between music and images.
-- Graham Nash

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
-- Graham Nash

#Anniversary #Song #Emotional

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
-- Graham Nash

#Faces #New Life #Earth

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic
-- Graham Nash

#Music #Magic #Important

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
-- Graham Nash

#Beautiful #Guitar #Levels

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
-- Graham Nash

#Photography #Years #Photographer

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.
-- Graham Nash

#Travel #Men #Immigration

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
-- Graham Nash

#Mean #First Love #Love Is

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train…
-- Graham Nash

#Wall #Lying #Sunset