"I loved working with Bob Dylan." — Benmont Tench

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

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I loved working with Bob Dylan.