Quotes by Benmont Tench

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Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

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I loved working with Bob Dylan.

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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

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In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs ...

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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

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Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

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There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

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The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

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The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.

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Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

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I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.

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Author Bio

  • NameBenmont Tench
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornSeptember 7, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Songwriter