Tom Glazer Quotes

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

Y'know, it's funny: I didn't think I'd be playing 'Hold The Line' at 60 years old. I was 19 when I first played that.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

I'm 32 now. I'm getting old. It's gone in the blink of an eye. But I won't even look back at the number of caps when I'm done: the most important thing will be remembering all the fun I've had with the guys in the dressing room and the friends I've made.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I don't really write songs anymore.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.