Top 60 Eddie Rabbitt Quotes

A lot of my friends who started out at the same time as me ended up getting married before they made it. There’s nothing wrong with marriage, but at the wrong time it can kill an emerging career.

Steve Binder did the Elvis comeback special in 1968, you know. He did the Diana Ross special. He has won Emmy Awards. I think he’s the premier, variety special man in America.

I write music I like to write and that I’m comfortable with.

When I was growing up, there were pop stations, rock ‘n’ roll stations and the rare country station.

For a couple of years, it was one gray-day after another.

I’ve managed to keep a lot of respect in radio because I write my own stuff. I’ve had a lot of success as a singer/songwriter. I think if you establish yourself that way, it is harder to throw you out with the bathwater.

I can’t imagine losing my wife or daughter or only being able to see them every so often. If my work made that happen, then music would become a bad thing.

Even though country is a large percentage of what I do. I don’t want to get locked into just one area because I write a lot of different kinds of music and I like doing three-part harmony, minor chords and pop music.

I’m there from conception to delivery of an album because I don’t want anybody getting in the middle of my music and meddling with my work while I’m on the road.

Well, I guess this sex symbol stuff is a nice compliment, but I don’t walk around thinking of myself as a sex symbol.

Working the road will kill you. Eating cheeseburgers, sleeping odd hours. If you don’t do something, it breaks you down. People think that it is glamorous; it is not glamorous.

I’ve always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren’t worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

They’ve always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another – usually country spilling over into the old adult-contemporary charts.

I can’t see a Twisted Sister on the country charts.

I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that’s what I do.

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

My ultimate idea would be to get a lot of big investors together, buy some land outside Orlando, Florida, and start up Rabbitt Land.

The ‘in your face’ MTV attitude is a global problem.

Even though I’ve had 20-some country No. 1 records, I still have a hard time convincing a lot of these people in the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music that I love country music.

I do face exercises, yoga things.

Just because I have a successful dog act doesn’t mean I can walk up to the lion cage and do as well.

I didn’t start out to be a country singer. It just happened that way.

Jeannle and I lost a son, Tlmmy, in 1985 to a liver transplant operation, if we can do some good, we want to do so.

I always break three or four guitar strings per show and fling them at the audience.

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

Writing has always been so much fun for me, and it still is. I think if you can keep it fun, then you have something. You start to lose it if it becomes work. That’s one of the reasons that we’re in this business – to get out of work.

We were one of the hottest bands in Jersey, but I was burning up because I knew I’d never be a star in Newark. I knew the action was in Nashville and that’s where I wanted to be.

I’m pretty paternal.

I think the fact that I’ve always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

I wrote ‘On Second Thought’ in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

I’ve been doing country music for a while, and people ask me, ‘What’s a kid from New Jersey doing singing country music?’ I just fell in love with it when I was a kid.

You have these rap groups talking about ‘Fight The Power’ and that kind of stuff. What do they mean by that? Fight democracy? Fight the government, the most freest Superpower government in the world? What they need to fight is what’s holding them back from getting educated and moving along in life.

I didn’t want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the Guard where, after going to weekend meetings, you’d do six months of active duty, with three months of basic training and three months of on-the-job training.

Not many Rabbitts in this country are related to me.

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

I’m not saying there’s not talent in heavy metal and rap, but a lot of people are finding it’s just the same thing, over and over.

Once in a blue moon, everything will be right with the man in the sky, and when I start singing ‘I Love a Rainy Night,’ from out of nowhere, there will be lightning and thunder. I just say, ‘Folks, we’ve got the best special effects guy in the world, so let’s get wet together.’

I never went to parties for the same reason I never went to clubs, because I had worked so many clubs with a band up in Jersey that I just wasn’t interested in hanging out in places.

Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.

If I didn’t work out and everything, I’d look 15 years older.

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

The name is Irish-Gaelic. In old Ireland, the Rabbitts were counselors to the chiefs.

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there’s been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

There’s a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it’s not created by the few, it’s created by anyone. They just plug in a drum machine and read some dirty high school poetry.

When a guy like Elvis sings your song, well, you know Elvis didn’t cut any junk. People thought, ‘This must be a good writer.’

Pop’s not a dirty word to me.

Not everybody that loves country music is ‘sitting on a bar stool/feelin’ like a durn fool.’

When I was 12 years old, I was in the Boy Scouts. The scoutmaster of our troop was in a band that played country music in some of the local clubs on the weekends.

I’m not your basic cowboy-cowboy.

I’m not one that listens to a whole lot of advice… I go with my gut instincts.

I cant live in a ‘world without love.’

Friends didn’t believe me when I told them about him, so I’d invite them over on Saturdays to watch the monkey watch TV.

I think if you start to feel secure, you don’t do as well.

We all have to dance with our devils. But I lead.

I think rap is creating a reverse racism.

I’m an Irish guy who loves his music.

I never want people to say, ‘Oh, another Eddie Rabbitt record.’ Each has to have a little different approach than the others.

It’s important to help where you can.

I try to give back some of the good fortune that I’ve received.