Neil Innes Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Neil Innes quotes and sayings page 3 (80 year old writer). These are the last 8 out of 28 quotes we have for him.

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

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

“But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”