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.

The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

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.

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

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

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

The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.

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.

The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.

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.

I'm the same boy I used to be.

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

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

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.

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 good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?