Steve Winwood Quotes

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.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

While there is time, let's go out and do everything.

The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

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.

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.

Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

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.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

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.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

I'm the same boy I used to be.

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

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.

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.

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.