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Colin Hay
(Australian Musician)

Date of Birth:: June 29, 1953
Nationality:: Australian
Quote count:: 15
Times favorited:: 1

Colin Hay is a Scottish-Australian musician, who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay is married to singer Cecilia Noel, who often provides backup vocals at Hay's shows.

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All quotes by Colin Hay

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“It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.”

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“There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.”

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“There were only a couple of people I would really trust, which has a kind of sadness to it. It doesn't really have anything to do with you, just to do with other people's perceptions of what's happened to you. It mainly had to do with people thinking you had untapped sources of wealth.”

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“It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.”

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“Sometimes I'm out on tour and you feel you're really getting somewhere and the audience is building and there's five or six hundred people coming to see you every night just from word-of-mouth. And then you go somewhere and you feel like you've gone back a decade and you're playing to 15 or 20 people. You think to yourself, 'Should I change my life, get another job?”

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“Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.”

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“I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if that was the only string in my ball. I play them because they're hit songs. I play them because I like the songs. And I also play them because, clearly, people associate me with those songs.”

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“We shamelessly put that on (”

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“I do everything from Men at Work right through to the songs I'm working on at the moment, ... It's great when you have new songs to play.”

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“Let's face it, ... I'm not the most marketable songwriter out there today. But there are still some people who want to hear those songs. I'm grateful I've found ways to get the songs to them.”

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