Quotes from Eddie Rabbitt

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

You've only got your 20s and 30s to secure a job; you'd better be established by your 30s.

At a certain time in your career you can't share your time with anyone else. You have to be completely selfish - so that you can write your music.

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.

I'm pretty paternal.

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

I love music and I would hate to get bored with it.

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 cant live in a 'world without love.'

I could care less about the pop charts.

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.

All my life I only wanted to write and play music, but it took a long time to make a go of it, and I was one of the lucky ones!

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.

A writer has to keep one foot in the street and one pocket empty and be hungry for it.

I write different kinds of stuff, from 'Two Dollars In The Jukebox' to 'Suspicions,' that really don't belong next to each other on an album.

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

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.

One reason people are turning to country music is because of that non-music called rap.

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

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.

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 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.

I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.

All the music has been done before except for the 'Eve of Destruction' and the 'Born in the U.S.A.' You keep reshaping - llke it was putty or clay.