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?

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

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

Jim Capaldi

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Jim Capaldi

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?

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

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.

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

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

Jim Capaldi

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Leonard Nimoy

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Jack Prelutsky

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Inge de Bruijn

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

Gary Oldman

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

Scott McCallum

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

Jean M. Auel

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

Glenn Tipton

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Maynard James Keenan

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Barbara Amiel

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Moon Unit Zappa

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Randy Newman

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Prince Andrew

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Abraham Robinson

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

Gene Wilder

I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

Rob Morrow

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Larry Flynt

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Suzanne Fields

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Tipper Gore

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

Liza Minnelli

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Alice Hamilton

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

Billy Eckstine