I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
“The two Mast Houses just within the Victory Gate of Portsmouth Dockyard are raised above the water on piloti. They are structures of remarkable… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share
