Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe
Nicholas Drain "Nick" Loweis an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth24 March 1949
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.
people long style
I'm really lucky that I've had a little gang of people who I've been involved with for a long time... I've been really lucky to have a gang of people who have always been there to encourage me to get on with it. Styles come and go, but I try not to take any notice of that.
ideas long going-away
But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours.
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.
direct hard songs work
I work very hard on getting the songs ... direct and examined,
generating margin profit small sold store track
We do make a small margin on each track that's sold at the store. But because it's Coke, there isn't a requirement for the store to be generating a profit for the store to operate.
number offensive pressure
We know they'll put pressure on us and, number one, we have to be able to rebound. We especially have to keep them off the offensive boards.
basketball beat best central credit four good played prepared quarters tonight
I give Central all the credit in the world. They battled. They put four quarters together. We know we're always going to get Central's best effort. They were prepared tonight and played hard. We beat a good basketball team.
ball basketball foul free job line man nice pounding taylor trouble
They did a very nice job of pounding the ball inside. We were in foul trouble in there, and Taylor was a man tonight. He did a nice job of, even when he didn't score, going to the free-throw line and making his free throws.
along germany gigs learning people spent
All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
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.
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.
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.
names way comfort
I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.