Jim Capaldi Quotes

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

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.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

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.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

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.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.