Benmont Tench quotes

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul. (Benmont Tench)

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

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

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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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I loved working with Bob Dylan.

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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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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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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. (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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Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

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What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.

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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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I think we've always been better live.

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: September 7, 1953
Quotes count: 16

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