Alan Price Quotes

"When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film."
- Alan Price
(Related: Music, Film, Song)

"There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name."
- Alan Price
(Related: Majority, Name, Nothing, Wrong)

"I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice."
- Alan Price
(Related: Frontline, Voice)

"The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together."
- Alan Price
(Related: Time, Guitar, Play)

"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan."
- Alan Price
(Related: Success, Failure, Fathers)

"The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically."
- Alan Price
(Related: Time, Animals)

"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."
- Alan Price
(Related: Guitar)

"I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found."
- Alan Price
(Related: Truth, Silly)

"Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic."
- Alan Price
(Related: Music, Ability)

"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."
- Alan Price
(Related: Animals, Being, Needs, Spirit)

"I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over."
- Alan Price
(Related: Songs)