Electric Light Orchestra Quotes
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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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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
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We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.
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I don't actually like touring.
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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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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
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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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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 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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The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
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We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
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I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
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Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.
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I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
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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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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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I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?