Jeff Lynne quotes
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“It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!”
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“It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.”
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“Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.”
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“Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.”
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“The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.”
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“The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.”
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“Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.”
-- Jeff LynneSource : "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
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“When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.”
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“There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.”
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“It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.”
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“I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.”
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“There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.”
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“At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.”
-- Jeff LynneSource : "An Electric Return for Jeff Lynne". Interview with Paul Clinton, edition.cnn.com. September 03, 2001.
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“As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!”
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“I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?”
-- Jeff LynneSource : "An Electric return for Jeff Lynne". Interview with Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2001.
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“I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?”
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“I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.”
-- Jeff LynneSource : "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
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“I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.”
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“I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.”
-- Jeff LynneSource : "An Electric Return for Jeff Lynne". CNN, September 03, 2001.
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