Jim Capaldi Quotes

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• Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
• For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
• Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.
• I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
• I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
• I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be…
• I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to…
• Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
• So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
• We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
• Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then…
• We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a…
• You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
• After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
• Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
• You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.
• If you take the time away, you take the character away.
• It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way…
• If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words,…
• I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side,…

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