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Benmont Tench

"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."

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"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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Donna Grant

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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Donna Grant

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Donna Grant

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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Donna Grant

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

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Donna Grant

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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Donna Grant

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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Donna Grant

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

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Donna Grant

"I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits."

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Donna Grant

"They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models."

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Benmont Tench
"Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff."

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Benmont Tench
"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."

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Benmont Tench
"Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast."

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Benmont Tench
"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."

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Benmont Tench
"I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul."

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Benmont Tench
"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."

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Benmont Tench
"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."

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Benmont Tench
"I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song."

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Benmont Tench
"You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song."

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Benmont Tench
"We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do."

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