We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. That's really my position on it. If we were to do a film… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from your subconscious… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think the music that's part of your heritage is what you spend a lot of your early life rejecting. The very idea of… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the problems with downloading mps these days. You never really get a chance to attune to a different logic,… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" -… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
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![“John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.” quote by Alasdair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/efc/alasdair-maclean-30200_celebrate_john-lennon-as-a-singer-the-way-he-sings_2273621.jpg)