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16 quotes by Roy Wood

Roy Wood (born 8 November 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands.
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I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always... →

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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was... →

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To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in... →

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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

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Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was... →

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Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view... →

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I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those... →

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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

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The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

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We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

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Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the... →

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I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk... →

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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the... →

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