Quotes from Randy Meisner

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

When we first started, we were best pals and we all got along great. As we got older, when the money started coming in, everyone changed in different ways.

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

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.

I was from Scotts Bluff, Neb.

Seeing Sunset Boulevard was a fantasy come true.

The band I was in, Soul Survivor, moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and tried real hard for two years.

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 had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.

Glenn, with his playing and his personality, he was one special person. He was the frontman on stage. He was a good talker and really good with people.

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

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.

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.

When the Eagles started, I was the best-known one in the band. I remember when Poco would play the Troubador, Glenn and Don would be in front of the stage, drooling and wishing they were in the band. But they'd never admit that now.

Poco was the forerunners of country rock, but didn't really have the success. By the time the Eagles were out, people were ready for it.

It's been hard for my parents to be able to drive and come and see me play. And a lot of friends and people just don't get out to see us, so I'd like them to, gosh, before we get too old.

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.

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

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.

I got a great business manager. When he invests, you make money. I got my house paid off, my wife, two little chihuahuas and tomato plants that are five feet high right now. I'm happy as a clam.

You don't see too many people on a farm. I didn't grow up dealing with a lot of people.

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.