Jeff Lynne Quotes

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• It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling…
• There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
• 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…
• At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
• As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!
• I don't actually like touring.
• I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
• It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a…
• Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.
• Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
• The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.
• The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.
• To me, making records isn't work.
• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
• 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…
• 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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