24 Quotes by Jim Capaldi
- So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
- They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
- Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
- We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest.
- Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
- We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.
- There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.
- You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.
- You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
- You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.
- We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
- Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
- This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
- I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
- But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
- After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
- Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
- For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
- Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.
- I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.
- I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
- I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
- I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
- Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.
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