Top 28 Quotes by Neil Innes

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

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.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

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.

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

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

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

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.