Ken Hensley Quotes

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• The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
• Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians…
• When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and…
• People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!
• THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians…
• When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of…
• I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable…
• All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.
• If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
• There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often…
• I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor…
• It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
• It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it…
• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning.…
• I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.
• I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
• It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.
• I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and,…
• I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and…
• The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to…

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