Benmont Tench Quotes

Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
Benmont Tench

Play, Fast, Fairly

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
Benmont Tench

Impossible, Anybody, Sound

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
Benmont Tench

Play, Special, Couple

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

Down, Soul, Loved

I loved working with Bob Dylan.
Benmont Tench

Working, Loved, Bob

I think we've always been better live.
Benmont Tench

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
Benmont Tench

Find, Try, Song

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Benmont Tench

Yourself, Song, Attention

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

Work, Working, Sometimes

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
Benmont Tench

Bring, Songs, Engineer

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

Working, Another, Takes

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
Benmont Tench

Down, Matter, Against

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.
Benmont Tench

Love, Great, Night

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.
Benmont Tench

Hard, Him, Play

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.
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Great, Nothing, Trying

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.
Benmont Tench

Great, Crazy, Emotional

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Nationality: American

Born: September 7, 1953

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