"The music we made then was so amateurish,……" — Kevin Ayers
"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 everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas."
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11 Quotes by Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers has 11 quotes on this site.
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You can’t shine if you don’t burn.
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England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
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I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step…
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I can't write songs unless I am in love.
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If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
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The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.
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Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone…
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That was something. As opposed to nothing.
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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on.…
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We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd…
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More Amateurish Quotes
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
— Edward Abbey
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Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was…
— Legs McNeil
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward…
— Wallace Stegner
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out…
— Ben E. King
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music…
— Patti Smith
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I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way,…
— Johnny Weir
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
— Susan Sontag
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As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have…
— George Cukor
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We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now,…
— Lev Yilmaz
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