Kevin Ayers Quotes

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• You can’t shine if you don’t burn.
• England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
• I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and…
• I can't write songs unless I am in love.
• If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
• The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.
• Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there.…
• That was something. As opposed to nothing.
• The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what…
• These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the…
• We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something,…

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