Zitat des Tages von Roy Harper:
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.
It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.
I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.
As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
