Creativity Quote by Roy Wood

Regret lands here with the offhand thud of a road not taken. Roy Wood isn’t mythologizing a grand artistic vision; he’s talking like a working musician looking back at a timing error that now feels obvious. “We should have gone over” is wonderfully plain, almost logistical, but the subtext is emotional: an admission that ambition was present, consensus even, and still the move didn’t happen. That’s the specific sting - not that the band lacked desire, but that desire didn’t translate into action.

The line also smuggles in a quiet critique of whatever machinery surrounded the group: management hesitation, label caution, money, fear of flopping in a bigger arena. Wood frames it as collective (“most of the band did”), which spreads responsibility while hinting at the familiar band dynamic where one or two holdouts, or one gatekeeper, can stall everyone. It’s a way to say, without naming names, that momentum was blocked.

Context matters because “going over” reads like crossing to the U.S. market - the classic proving ground for British acts in the post-Beatles era, when touring America wasn’t just promotion but a referendum. Wood’s phrasing suggests they understood the window: strike while the sound is hot, before trends shift and the industry moves on. The quote works because it refuses drama. No heroic narrative, just the maddening truth of pop history: careers turn on scheduling, nerve, and whether a band believes its own hype in time.