English - Musician | June 12, 1941 -
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
Roy Harper
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What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
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I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
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I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
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I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.
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When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.
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At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
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In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.
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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.
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I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
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As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
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