Song Quotes by Alasdair MacLean

9 Song quotes by Alasdair MacLean

Alasdair MacLean’s nine brief musings on song provide a snapshot of his creative mindset. The collection is short, yet each quote reveals a piece of his artistic puzzle.

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Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

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Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das…

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I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these…

Alasdair MacLean

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I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were…

Alasdair MacLean

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I think that's one of the problems with downloading mps these days. You never really get a chance to attune to a…

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When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from…

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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…

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I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really…

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Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,…

Alasdair MacLean

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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…

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I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few…

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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" -…

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Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was…

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Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

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