Nick Lowe quotes and sayings
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
Nick Lowe quotes
- Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
- I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
- I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
- The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
- They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
- When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
- All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
- I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
- If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.
- I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.