“If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.” IfsWantRecords Author:Paul Weller
“I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece” WantedRecordsPieces Author:Paul Weller
“When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.” KnowsYearsAmericaGuyAsksNamesRecordsSeeingRootsOriginalsGreenNotesBritishStoresBrownInterpretationPeterMacsRecord StoresFleetwood Mac Author:Paul Weller
“It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.” PeopleRecordsNiceEncouraging Author:Paul Weller
“When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.” WholeVoiceRecordsPiecesArrangementsBassEnsemble Author:Paul Weller
“There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.” PeopleHas BeensFeltRecordsHavensConnected Author:Paul Weller
“When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.” EnoughBigsAgeUsedCertainRecordsPlayerReaderSixSevenCabinetsRecord Players Author:Paul Weller