Top 25 Randy Meisner Quotes

I think you miss a person more after they’re gone for a while.

I decided I didn’t need to make any more money; I had enough. And I felt I should be spending more time with my wife and kids.

When it got to the point of sanity or money, I thought I’d rather have sanity.

A background person is all I’ve been all my life.

I’d never worked a job in my life.

I aspirated some food into my throat and choked. I was in a coma for a little while, too.

I’m real settled with what I’ve done. The albums are really fun to make but I don’t really like to be out on the road now.

I was scared someone would ask me something I didn’t know and I’d be on the spot. It’s the paranoia of a very shy person. I’ve gotten over those feelings about interviews for the most part.

It’s real hard being married and not being able to be with my family.

On stage you’re supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You’re not supposed to copy your records exactly.

Basically just being on the road so much and all the pressure of the Eagles eventually got to me.

You’re like brothers in a band like that. Sometimes we got in arguments, but it was like a marriage, we all loved each other.

A lot of groups go out, and they make big bucks in a couple of years and they’re gone. I would like a band that’s sustaining.

I thought it would be nice to sit in with Timothy B. Schmit and sing ‘Take It to the Limit,’ but they pretty much gave me a ‘no’ in a roundabout way. I can’t blame them. They have to keep their band the way it is.

I thought I could get away, but music’s in my blood.

No, I don’t go along with everything they say or do. For example, I’m probably the only one in the band who loves funky rock n’ roll, trashy music and R&B. And I don’t agree with some of our images either. But Don and Glenn have it covered.

It really wasn’t fun any more, everything was too business-oriented. I just remember the old days when the band was really tight together, playing Eagle poker and just having a really good time while we were doing it. Towards the end, it just got too cut-throat.

Stuff about the reunion was all over the TV all the time, and they were playing ‘Take It to the Limit’ on the radio again. And I’m thinking, gee whiz, I wish they’d reunited with the guys who were actually in the group.

I just work around the yard. There’s always something to do around the house. You fix one end of it and the other end breaks. It’s very normal. I love it.

I just wasn’t getting anywhere. I was still a backup musician.

The line ‘Take it to the limit’ was to keep trying before you reach a point in your life where you feel you’ve done everything and seen everything – sort of feeling, you know, part of getting old.

We ended up all living in a one-bedroom apartment that cost $80 a month and sleeping on the floor. My jacket was my first pillow. We really had nothing at all.

I could have tripled my money if I’d stayed. But I was just tired of the touring. It’s a crazy life that you live at twice the normal speed.

I always wrote alone with the Eagles.

I was always kind of shy. They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing ‘Take It to the Limit,’ but I liked to be out of the spotlight.