Phil Everly Quotes

#1. There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

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#2. It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again ... I go in another direction.

Phil Everly

#3. A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

James Allen

#4. Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

Phil Everly

#6. I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

Phil Everly

#7. When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

Phil Everly

#8. In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. And what I really like is to put on a Gene Autry film, because he sings really well. So he sings me to sleep.

Phil Everly

#9. I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.

James Best

#10. Love is ... a madness most discreet

William Shakespeare

#11. In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

Bert Campaneris

#12. HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Idries Shah

#13. I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

Don Everly

#14. Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'

Phil Everly

#15. The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.

Phil Everly

#16. When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

Don Everly

#17. Life is loves shrine.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.

Phil Everly

#19. In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

Tina Ambani

#20. We must move "out of our mind" and dwell in our consciousness.

Michael Tsarion

#21. In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

Phil Everly

#22. My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

Phil Everly

#23. I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

Don Everly