Roy Wood Quotes

• 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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  Play, Rehearsal, Brilliant

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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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  Pensar, Debería, Años

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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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  Music, Book, Reading

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• Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

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  Music, Air, Wind

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• The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

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  People, Littles, Saws

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• Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

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  Song, Time, Moving

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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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  Time, Thinking, Together

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• Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.

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  Beach, Boys, Power

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• Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

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  Canción, Escritura, Guitarra

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• When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

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  Change, Band, Records

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• To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

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  Song, Way, Eras

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