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"We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest."; "Traffic was very, very free. It was great."; "This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different."; "They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage."; "There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands."; …"So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong."; "Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper."; "I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity."; "I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."; "I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."; "I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up."; "Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music."; "For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles."; "But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics."; "Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them."; "After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together."
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