Roy Wood Quotes
- We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
- I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
- When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start…
- Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that…
- Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it.…
- Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point…
- I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I…
- Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the…
- The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and…
- The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
- To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all…
- I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands…
- When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the…
- I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
- I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the…
- We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on…