Top 28 Quotes by Neil Innes

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

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.