Top 19 Quotes by Nick Lowe

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.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

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.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.