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“If you take the time away, you take the character away.”
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Jim Capaldi
Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
#Character Quotes
#Time Away Quotes
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“It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.”
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Jim Capaldi
Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
#Philosophy Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.”
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Jim Capaldi
Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
#Writing Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
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“I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.”
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Jim Capaldi
Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
#Song Quotes
#Strong Quotes
#Dark Quotes
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“The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.”
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Jim Capaldi
Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
#People Quotes
#Different Quotes
#Goes On Quotes
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“It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - —violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes me hate the violence. But there's beauty in violence if it's put over the right way.”
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Jim Capaldi
Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
#Hate Quotes
#People Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“Traffic was very, very free. It was great.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Traffic Quotes
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“Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Home Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Magazines Quotes
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“After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Sweat Quotes
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“You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Hype Quotes
#Catalyst Quotes
#Ability Quotes
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“We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Impact Quotes
#Important Quotes
#Elbows Quotes
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“Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Bridges Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Shapes Quotes
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“We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Appreciation Quotes
#Desire Quotes
#Range Quotes
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“So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Strong Quotes
#Names Quotes
#Groups Quotes
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“Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Song Quotes
#Pieces Quotes
#Paper Quotes
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“I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Strong Quotes
#Taken Quotes
#America Quotes
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“I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Age Quotes
#Energy Quotes
#Band Quotes
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“I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Creativity Quotes
#Pushing Quotes
#Boundaries Quotes
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“I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Passion Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Causes Quotes
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“Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Guy Quotes
#Groups Quotes
#Hanging Out Quotes
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“For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Writing Quotes
#Titles Quotes
#Band Quotes
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“You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.”
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Jim Capaldi
#Strong Quotes
#Titles Quotes
