Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home,… — Richard Thompson Acoustics Copy Share Image
If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become… — Richard Thompson Audience Copy Share Image
I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action. — Richard Thompson Action Copy Share Image
I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do. — Richard Thompson Children Copy Share Image
The best thing you've got going for you is individuality. — Richard Thompson Identity Copy Share Image
Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot… — Richard Thompson Antagonism Copy Share Image
I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the… — Richard Thompson Different Copy Share Image
I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't. — Richard Thompson Covered Copy Share Image
“Did the tea-time of your soul Make you long for wilder days Did you never let Jack Kerouac Wash over you in… — Richard Thompson Nature Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have… — Richard Thompson Late Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've had fairly benign record companies who gave me a lot of rope, but in spite of that, there's… — Richard Thompson Age Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Metaphor Copy Share Image
If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you… — Richard Thompson Eye Copy Share Image
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole… — Richard Thompson Glad Copy Share Image
But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of… — Richard Thompson Kind Copy Share Image
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. — Richard Thompson Down and Copy Share Image
I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled. — Richard Thompson Looks Copy Share Image
Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close? — Richard Thompson Bartender Copy Share Image
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. — Richard Thompson Hands Copy Share Image
They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place. — Richard Thompson Human race Copy Share Image
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records. — Richard Thompson Achievement Copy Share Image
It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. — Richard Thompson Enjoyable Copy Share Image
To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm — Richard Thompson Alarms Copy Share Image
