top of page
Quote_1.png
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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Play quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I understand your new play is full of single entendres."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."

Explore more quotes by Benmont Tench

Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working."
Quote_1.png
Benmont Tench
"I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song."
bottom of page