Top 28 Quotes by Neil Innes

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.