Quotes by Neil Innes - Page 1

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Inquisition
Spanish Inquisition
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But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.
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Mostly
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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.
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Laughing
Musician
Thinking
Laugh
Musicians
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And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
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Crazy
Robots
Roger
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But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.
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One Day
Records
Nearly
Remember Day One Day
Sold
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Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.
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Learning
Answers
Authority
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I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.
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Chords
Melodies
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I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.
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Records
Track
Track Record
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
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Songwriting
Gorilla
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
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Men
Roles
Way
Straight Man
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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
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License
Roger
Fitted
Suppose
Venue
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Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.
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Music
Gentleman
Now
Suffered
Ladies
Turn
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But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
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Mean
Musical
Zappa
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Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.
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Gentleman
Ladies And Gentlemen
Turns
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In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.
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Songwriters
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I suppose Roger [Ruskin Spear] had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
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License
Roger
Venues
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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
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Eric
Parrots
Shoulders
Clapton
Eric Clapton
Onstage
Parrot
Shoulder
Stuffed
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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
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Larry
Tony
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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.
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Forty
Mean
Thinking
Thirty
Years
Sell
Recent
Recent Years
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In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
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Journey
Brighton
Moon
Thinking
Festival
Tour
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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.
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Grateful
Dead
Grateful Dead
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But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
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Bass
Musician
Solid
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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.
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Pubs
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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.
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Flea Markets
Records
Silly
Song
Titles
Flea
Markets
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Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.
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Ignore
Onstage
Presence
Walked
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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.
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Dancing
Decided
Pops
Program
Rude
Sound
Television
Sounds
Third
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It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
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British
Hey
Peer Group
Peer
Suddenly
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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.
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Larry
Moving
Needed
Player
Rocks
Quite
Bass Player
Drums
Sam
Shift
Took
Vernon
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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.
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Blow
Bored
Drummer
Kissing
Larry
Tired
Stand Up
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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.
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Cabaret
Clubs
England
Pubs
Six
Version
Big Success
Weeks
North
Shortened
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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.
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Girl
Guy
Handle
Mars
Poor
Sci Fi
Terrible
Trying
Desperately
Guys
Suppose
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