38 Quotes by Jeff Lynne

As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it’s ’whoosh!

Live shows are fun – sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

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.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I’ve always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

I don’t actually like touring.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I’ve made a record to please myself.

To me, making records isn’t work.

I’m still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn’t come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, ‘Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.’ I wrote ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.