Jeff Lynne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!
-- Jeff Lynne

#Dream #Song #Writing
It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Together #Sound #Ordinary
Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Fun #Practice #Months
Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Different #Way #Music Is
The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Band #Saws #Firsts
The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Hair #Necks #Certain
To me, making records isn't work.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Records
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Guitar #Play #Piano
When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Song #Littles #Kind
There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Work #People #Littles
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Simple #People #Albums
I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Years #Stills
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Ukulele #Sound
At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
-- Jeff Lynne

#The End Of The Day #Records #Ends
As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!
-- Jeff Lynne

#Years #Gone
I don't actually like touring.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Touring
I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
-- Jeff Lynne

#Long #Albums #Lasts
I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?
-- Jeff Lynne

#House #Gears #Want
I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Thinking #Tree #Age
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Song #Nice #Trying
I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.
-- Jeff Lynne

#Sound #Matter #Rooms

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