Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Eddie Rabbitt

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as "Suspicions", "I Love a Rainy Night", and "Every Which Way but Loose". His duets "Both to Each Other " with Juice Newton and "You and I" with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

American - Musician | November 27, 1941 - May 7, 1998

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I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

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A song can go a million different ways once you first get it down on tape.

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My father played fiddle and the accordion.

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I try to give back some of the good fortune that I've received.

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They've always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another - usually country spilling over into the old adult-contemporary charts.

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Well, I guess this sex symbol stuff is a nice compliment, but I don't walk around thinking of myself as a sex symbol.

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All my life I only wanted to write and play music, but it took a long time to make a go of it, and I was one of the lucky ones!

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A writer has to keep one foot in the street and one pocket empty and be hungry for it.

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Writing has always been so much fun for me, and it still is. I think if you can keep it fun, then you have something. You start to lose it if it becomes work. That's one of the reasons that we're in this business - to get out of work.

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I'm an Irish guy who loves his music.

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Friends didn't believe me when I told them about him, so I'd invite them over on Saturdays to watch the monkey watch TV.

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I think if you start to feel secure, you don't do as well.

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I just don't want to cut a tune and come in later on and put things on it.

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MTV and others need to think about putting positive images In kids' minds.

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I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

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I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

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A lot of people kind of perceive me as some kind of pop act because in the early '80s 'I Love A Rainy Night' went No. 1 for two weeks in a row and 'Driving My Life Away' sold a million records.

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I've been doing country music for a while, and people ask me, 'What's a kid from New Jersey doing singing country music?' I just fell in love with it when I was a kid.

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Not many Rabbitts in this country are related to me.

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I have always come out of left field with my stuff.

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I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

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I was engaged once In New Jersey. But the engagement ended, because I had music on my mind. I had nothing to offer her except a dream.

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We all have to dance with our devils. But I lead.

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I'm having No. 1 hits on the country charts and that's where I always wanted to be. I've had 26 No. 1 country records. That thrills me to no end.

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Just because I have a successful dog act doesn't mean I can walk up to the lion cage and do as well.

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I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

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Even though country is a large percentage of what I do. I don't want to get locked into just one area because I write a lot of different kinds of music and I like doing three-part harmony, minor chords and pop music.

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Working the road will kill you. Eating cheeseburgers, sleeping odd hours. If you don't do something, it breaks you down. People think that it is glamorous; it is not glamorous.

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I like all good music - rock, pop, country, classical - and when you sit down to write, it all comes out.

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The name is Irish-Gaelic. In old Ireland, the Rabbitts were counselors to the chiefs.

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Even though I've had 20-some country No. 1 records, I still have a hard time convincing a lot of these people in the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music that I love country music.

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I write different kinds of stuff, from 'Two Dollars In The Jukebox' to 'Suspicions,' that really don't belong next to each other on an album.

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The traditional country music stays because it's such an all-around good format and it's fun to write songs like 'Oh Susannah.' I just feel along with that you gotta talk about what's going on today.

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We do a very family oriented show.

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I never went to parties for the same reason I never went to clubs, because I had worked so many clubs with a band up in Jersey that I just wasn't interested in hanging out in places.

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When a guy like Elvis sings your song, well, you know Elvis didn't cut any junk. People thought, 'This must be a good writer.'

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I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.

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I write all different types of music, which can be a blessing and a curse.

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I didn't start out to be a country singer. It just happened that way.

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When I was 12 years old, I was in the Boy Scouts. The scoutmaster of our troop was in a band that played country music in some of the local clubs on the weekends.

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One reason people are turning to country music is because of that non-music called rap.

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I'm not your basic cowboy-cowboy.

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Music is me; it has been since I was 5.

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I think rap is creating a reverse racism.

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You have these rap groups talking about 'Fight The Power' and that kind of stuff. What do they mean by that? Fight democracy? Fight the government, the most freest Superpower government in the world? What they need to fight is what's holding them back from getting educated and moving along in life.

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I could care less about the pop charts.

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It's important to help where you can.

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Not everybody that loves country music is 'sitting on a bar stool/feelin' like a durn fool.'

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We were one of the hottest bands in Jersey, but I was burning up because I knew I'd never be a star in Newark. I knew the action was in Nashville and that's where I wanted to be.

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I'm not one that listens to a whole lot of advice... I go with my gut instincts.

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I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.

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I listened to all kinds of music: rock, pop, R & B. But country was always my first love.

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Jeannle and I lost a son, Tlmmy, in 1985 to a liver transplant operation, if we can do some good, we want to do so.

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I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

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I have an affinity for animals.

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I've always liked 'Mist In The Meadow.'

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Song of Ireland' struck a chord in Ireland. There are tons of Rabbitts there.

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You've only got your 20s and 30s to secure a job; you'd better be established by your 30s.

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I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

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I've managed to keep a lot of respect in radio because I write my own stuff. I've had a lot of success as a singer/songwriter. I think if you establish yourself that way, it is harder to throw you out with the bathwater.

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Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Eddie Rabbitt

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