Jeff Lynne Quotes
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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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Midnight on the water I saw the ocean's daughter Walking on a wave's chicane Staring as she called my name And I can't get it out of my head No, I can't get it out of my head Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can't get it out of my head
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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's a livin' thing. It's a terrible thing to lose. It's a given thing. What a terrible thing to lose.
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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.
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It was one of those nights One of those nights When you feel the world stop turning You were standing there There was music in the air I should have been away But I knew I had to stay
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A place where nobody dared to go the love that we came to know They call it Xanadu And now, open your eyes and see what we have made is real We are in Xanadu A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu
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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
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My Shangri-la has gone away, Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain That came in somewhere softly from the blue.
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The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu
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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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There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
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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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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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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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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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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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To me, making records isn't work.
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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.
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It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.
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I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
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Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.