Walker Hayes Quotes

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.