Benmont Tench Quotes

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• I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
• 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…
• Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
• I loved working with Bob Dylan.
• I think we've always been better live.
• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try…
• Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
• We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and…
• Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
• You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the…
• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote…
• I think I drift toward sad love songs.
• I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
• There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
• 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…
• The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
• Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

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