Quotes by Neil Innes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

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?

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

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.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

— Neil Innes

Education

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom

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.

— Neil Innes

Wisdom