Nick Lowe

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#along #business #chops #comes #germany

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#grooving #holds #horrible #i #long

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#could #flier #i #imagine #military

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#attitude #bag #brand #brand new #costello

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#america #been #character #cute #eccentric

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#because #being #big #big fish #brings

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#believes #blues #enough #experience #hard

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#direct #examined #getting #go #hard

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#like #people #playing #records #same

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#along #bit #came #done #hit