62+ Todd Rundgren Quotes On Running, Morning Joe And Tour

Todd Rundgren is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for a diverse range of styles including rock, pop, soul, funk, hard rock, progressive rock, and psychedelic rock. He has been active since the late 1960s, releasing a number of solo albums and collaborating with other artists. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Todd Rundgren on running, love, morning joe.

Top 10 Todd Rundgren Quotes

1. Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
2. So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
3. I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.
4. I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.
5. It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.
6. Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all
7. I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?
8. You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.
9. The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill.
10. So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Todd Rundgren Short Quotes

• Behind every tree there's a new monster.
• Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.
• Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.
• They may be stupid, but they sure are fun.
• My senses tell me hubba.
• Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.
• I guess country music works better in supermarkets.
• I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.
• I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.
• Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.

Todd Rundgren Quotes About Love

When you're all alone, love one another. — Todd Rundgren

Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire. — Todd Rundgren

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them? — Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren Quotes About People

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting. — Todd Rundgren

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. — Todd Rundgren

People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something. — Todd Rundgren

I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political aims. The problem is that politics is about the accretion of power, and it's very difficult not to get giddy with power. — Todd Rundgren

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that. — Todd Rundgren

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time. — Todd Rundgren

Michael Jackson is a cake-and-eat-it kind of guy. He has never recognized or accepted the fact that when you shove yourself in people's face, they're not going to look just at the part you're showing them. People want to see everything that's connected to the face. — Todd Rundgren

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe. — Todd Rundgren

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. — Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren Famous Quotes And Sayings

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. — Todd Rundgren

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. — Todd Rundgren

If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved. — Todd Rundgren

I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and found some older material that's appropriate for the show and I've re-recorded that as well in kind of a newer format. So I've been pretty much focused on my own thing. — Todd Rundgren

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed. — Todd Rundgren

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should. — Todd Rundgren

You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body. — Todd Rundgren

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are. — Todd Rundgren

The ultimate crime is not to care. — Todd Rundgren

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience. — Todd Rundgren

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop. — Todd Rundgren

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day. — Todd Rundgren

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point? — Todd Rundgren

If you went crazy, would you know it? — Todd Rundgren

One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album. — Todd Rundgren

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with. — Todd Rundgren

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process. — Todd Rundgren

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it. — Todd Rundgren

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think. — Todd Rundgren

Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business - had The Beatles not demonstrated that this kind of music, or this kind of performance, was actually viable as a career alternative. — Todd Rundgren

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive! — Todd Rundgren

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist. — Todd Rundgren

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself. — Todd Rundgren

Look upon yourself only with compassion. — Todd Rundgren

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance. — Todd Rundgren

Wishing won't make it so Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it The Supreme Court won't do it, the President and the Congress won't do it The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it, the sun and the moon won't do it And God won't do it, and I certainly won't do it That leaves you, you'll have to do it — Todd Rundgren

If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me. — Todd Rundgren

There must be a God because he made me. — Todd Rundgren

There are people who are known for some contribution to pop culture, but that doesn't mean that you've survived solely on your relevance to whatever is currently popular. That's what a pop star is, in that sense. You might start out as a pop star, but that's just an opportunity to become more relevant, if you possibly can. — Todd Rundgren

I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if I wanted to do a Talking Heads album back in the late '70s, early '80s, and I was already working on a different project and didn't have time, so I never got the opportunity to work with them. — Todd Rundgren

Life Lessons by Todd Rundgren

1. Todd Rundgren is an example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he has been a prolific musician and producer for over five decades.
2. His willingness to experiment and explore different styles of music has led to a diverse and unique body of work.
3. His career is a testament to the importance of staying creative and open to new ideas, which can help to keep an artist's work fresh and relevant.