Graham Nash Quotes

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

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

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm curious about life, period.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.