Neil Innes Quotations

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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