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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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"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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"I get to play a killer next."

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"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."

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"Lyricists play with words."

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"I never play without my cape."

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"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."

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"I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore."

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"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."

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"I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do."

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"You don't have to live the blues to play the blues."

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"So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments."

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

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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
"Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs."

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"Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working."

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"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'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."

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

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"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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