All Benmont Tench Quotes
- I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul. Down
- 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… Across
- Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith. All
- I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me. Couple
- I loved working with Bob Dylan. Bob
- I think we've always been better live. Been
- I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song. Along
- If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. Attention
- 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… Ahead
- Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working. Feel
- 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… Absolutely
- Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level. 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… Bring
- 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… Came
- I think I drift toward sad love songs. Drift
- I quit college and neglected to tell my dad. College
- There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting. Chappell
- 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… Enjoy
- The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did. Came
- Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs. Bring
- Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast. Besides
- I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no… Chords