Huey Lewis Quotes

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

I'm happy to be stuck with you.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

Take it from me, its hip to be square.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

Sometimes bad is bad.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.