Neil Innes Quotes

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Neil Innes

Profession : Writer

Birth : December 9, 1944

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

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I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

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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?

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

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

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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

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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.

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