Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
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. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
