Top 19 Quotes by Nick Lowe

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

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.