Alasdair MacLean

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

— Alasdair MacLean

There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of…

— Alasdair MacLean

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…

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Alasdair MacLean

It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as…

— Alasdair MacLean

I think the music that's part of your heritage is what you spend a lot of your early life rejecting. The very…

— Alasdair MacLean

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you…

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Alasdair MacLean

John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields…

— Alasdair MacLean

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

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

— Alasdair MacLean

I'm a huge Boards Of Canada fan. They're my favorite contemporary band. The interesting thing about Boards Of Canada is, they use…

— Alasdair MacLean

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…

— Alasdair MacLean

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean