Innes Quotes

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

Neil Innes

#2. But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Laura Innes

#3. I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

Laura Innes

#4. When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Neil Innes

#5. I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

Neil Innes

#6. I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

Neil Innes

#7. Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

Neil Innes

#8. But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

Neil Innes

#9. We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

Neil Innes

#10. I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

Neil Innes

#11. Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

Laura Innes

#12. It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

Laura Innes

#13. You weren't there.

Hammond Innes

#14. I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Neil Innes

#15. 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.

Neil Innes

#16. I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

Neil Innes

#17. We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

Laura Innes

#18. In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

Neil Innes

#19. We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

Neil Innes

#20. 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.

Neil Innes

#21. I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

Neil Innes

#22. I trust that you'll find your way, and whether you succeed or not isn't significantly important. What damns a man lies in the choices he makes, not in the cards he's been dealt.

Yvonne Von Innes

#23. But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

Neil Innes

#24. I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

Laura Innes

#25. On the run in the African jungle... The only man that can save her, is the greatest risk her heart has ever faced.

Louise Rose-Innes

#26. We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Laura Innes

#27. One of my greatest strengths is to admit my weaknesses.

Dick Innes

#28. Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

Neil Innes

#29. I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Neil Innes

#30. It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

Neil Innes

#31. The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

Laura Innes

#32. The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

Reginald Innes Pocock

#33. 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.

Neil Innes

#34. 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.

Neil Innes

#35. Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Neil Innes

#36. Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Neil Innes

#37. And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Laura Innes

#38. I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.

Henrietta Rose-Innes

#39. The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Laura Innes

#40. Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?

Michael Innes

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

Neil Innes

#42. I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

Laura Innes

#43. Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

Neil Innes

#44. In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

Neil Innes

#45. And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

Neil Innes

#46. But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

Neil Innes

#47. He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

Hammond Innes

#48. But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Neil Innes