Chris Isaak Quotes

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
Chris Isaak

Love, Good, Enough

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
Chris Isaak

Hell, Put, Talk

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
Chris Isaak

Stupid, Angry, Wrong

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
Chris Isaak

Music, Great, Advice

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.
Chris Isaak

Off, Hair, Started

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.
Chris Isaak

Time, Talk, Stuff

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.
Chris Isaak

Love, Time, Making

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
Chris Isaak

Money, Travel, Thought

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
Chris Isaak

Music, Home, Happy

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.
Chris Isaak

Time, Done, Hair

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
Chris Isaak

Life, Pretty, Miserable

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
Chris Isaak

Live, Real, Means

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.
Chris Isaak

I keep things pretty simple.
Chris Isaak

Simple, Pretty, Keep

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.
Chris Isaak

Play, Guitar, Write

I put music on and I drive around town.
Chris Isaak

Music, Put, Around

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.
Chris Isaak

Life, Funny, Music

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.
Chris Isaak

Learn, Far, Goes

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.
Chris Isaak

Life, Great, Dad

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
Chris Isaak

Nice, Mind, Writing

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.
Chris Isaak

Business, Career, Methodical

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.
Chris Isaak

Woman, Second, Hand

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.
Chris Isaak

Write, Songs, Flaws

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
Chris Isaak

Natural, Bother, Ham

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
Chris Isaak

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Nationality: American

Born: June 26, 1956

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