Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe
Nicholas Drain "Nick" Loweis an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth24 March 1949
lonely glasses needs
I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.
military two band
Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
long body horrible
As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
song mind three
I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.
big-fish ponds headache
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
peace tolerance understanding
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding
attitude play people
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
song merry-christmas thinking
It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.
thinking quality wish
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.
song long together
You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.
song thinking listening
The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.
anyone audiences brings fish happy huge interested small welcome
I like being a big fish in a small pond, ... I'm not interested in having a huge audience, because it brings its own headaches. If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
good produced stood wore
They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
song rotation certain
To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.