Quotes from Jim Capaldi

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.