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Colin Hay

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I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.


— Colin Hay


#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.


— Colin Hay


#believe #hit #hit record #i #like

I've got a long-term plan.


— Colin Hay


#i #long-term #plan

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.


— Colin Hay


#acoustic guitar #certain #certain ways #comfortable #feel

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.


— Colin Hay


#always #angry #beautiful #even #had

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.


— Colin Hay


#bunch #exactly #how #intentions #me

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.


— Colin Hay


#cut #difficult #frustrating #just #listening

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.


— Colin Hay


#me #most #people #remember #remember me

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.


— Colin Hay


#heavily #lot #mother #quite #songs






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I'd play to a hundred people or sometimes less. Hay joined as guest vocalist with The Incredible Penguins in 1985 for a cover of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" a charity project for research on Little Penguins which peaked at No. It’s been word-of-mouth.

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Hay's music has been frequently used by actor and director Zach Braff in his work subsequently leading to a career rebirth in the mid-2000s. Regarding his solo career Hay stated in 2011: "I feel like it’s been building for the last fifteen or so years that I’ve been touring. People see the show like it and tell their friends.

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