Quotes by Musician

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Funny, Music, Flying, Play

"I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Music, Pretty, Quick, Reading

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Change, Time, End, Evening

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Power, Time, Beach, Boys

"We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Years,

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Fancy,

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Guitar, Mind, Now, Right

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Audiences, Song

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Play,

"When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies."

Roy Wood, English Musician

First,

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Time, Direction, Fact

"I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do."

Roy Wood, English Musician

People, Road, Song

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

Roy Wood, English Musician

People, First

"I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Months,

"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Play,

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Time, Thought, Song

"In my family, they were all big boozers."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Family,

"It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Art, Music, Boys, Folk

"Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Months,

"I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Home, College, Right, School

"Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Being, Interest

"I always want to rock."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Want,

"My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Father, Dad, Now

"My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Self, State

"I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Money, Losing

"I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Time,

"I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Body, Depression, Now

"Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Time, Thought, Growing up, Vice

"People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!"

Ron Wood, British Musician

People, Impression, Rest, Wrong

"I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Friendship, Friends, Walking

"I love to go to Ireland just to relax."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Love, Ireland, Relax

"With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Night,

"The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Alcohol, Being

"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Enemy,

"When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!"

Ron Wood, British Musician

Art, Music, Being, Fans

"When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man."

Ron Wood, British Musician

First, Man

"We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Sex,

"Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different."

Bobby Womack, American Musician

Love, Guitar

"People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them."

Bobby Womack, American Musician

People, Songs, Writing

"You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion."

Bobby Womack, American Musician

Time, Ending

"I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s."

Bobby Womack, American Musician

Life, Living

"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Business, Career

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Music, May

"I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Music, Idea, Country, Country music

"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Expectation, Expectations

"But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Music,

"But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Love, Music, People, Artists

"And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Music, Time, People, Idea

"And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Love, Music, People, Numbers

"I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!"

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Love, Computer, Internet

"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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"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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"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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"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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"We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies."

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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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"I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do."

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

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"I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal."

​

"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

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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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"In my family, they were all big boozers."

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"It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now."

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"Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back."

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"I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band."

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"Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice."

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"I always want to rock."

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"My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now."

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"My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state."

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"I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it."

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"I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy."

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"I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now."

​

"Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa."

​

"People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!"

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"I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends."

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"I love to go to Ireland just to relax."

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"With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before."

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"The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good."

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"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

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"When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!"

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"When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man."

​

"We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me."

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"Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different."

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"People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them."

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"You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion."