Martin Fry Quotes

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

I quite like ABBA.

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.

In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

I grew up on Queen, ABBA and at the same time, Nityasree.

In the mid- to late '70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

Back in the '90s, whenever we were having '70s nostalgia, you could take the good with the bad. Like yeah, sure, Nixon happened, Watergate happened, but we also had bell bottoms and ABBA and 'The Brady Bunch.'