Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III (born September 7, 1953) is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Read full biography of Benmont Tench →
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.
Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
I loved working with Bob Dylan.
I think we've always been better live.
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III (born September 7, 1953) is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.