Neil Innes quotes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. (Neil Innes)
And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything. View quote
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In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. View quote
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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. View quote
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. View quote
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways. View quote
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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. View quote
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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 on drums, and we needed a bass player. View quote
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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 poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. View quote
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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. View quote
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But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. (Neil Innes)
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 we needed the bass to sort of drive along. View quote
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But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. View quote
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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 is not as rude as it sounds. View quote
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How sweet to be an idiot At my back With no fear of attack As much retaliation as a toy. View quote
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I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos. View quote
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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. View quote
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We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. View quote
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We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. View quote
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But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. View quote
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I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes. (Neil Innes)
Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. View quote
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So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. View quote
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We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. View quote
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But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. View quote
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