Neil Innes Quotes

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• Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.
• In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
• Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So…
• When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which…
• As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over…
• Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.
• But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
• I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
• I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
• I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some…
• I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.
• I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.
• And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
• Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
• I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
• So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
• I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
• But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.
• But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

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