Benmont Tench Quotes
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Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.
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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.
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I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
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I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
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I loved working with Bob Dylan.