It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got … - Jeff Lynne

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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

Jeff Lynne

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Albums, Charts, Days, People, Simple

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It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

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There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

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It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

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I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Knock, Love, Nice, Song, Trying

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

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