"Remember, this was a world that was still……" — Roy Harper
"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."
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11 Quotes by Roy Harper
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What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.
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I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's…
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I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been,…
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I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
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When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades…
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As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like…
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I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
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As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a…
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I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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