Roy Harper
Roy Harper
Roy Harper is an English folk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since 1964. Harper has released 32 albumsacross his 50-year career...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth12 June 1941
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
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I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.
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I've never known anything but emotional turmoil... I go from day to day in a kind of frenzied state. I can't wait to do this, that and the other.
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I've listened to a lot of music, and I reckon that my records are definitely better, more stimulating, and more carefully constructed than any others. I've studied the melodies and lyrical forms of many artists, but no-one else quite seems to sustain the burning intensity of my own work.
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I've never bothered much about the past, I'm always in the middle of the next step and so the past is really scattered.
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I've always had a 'take it or leave it' attitude to fame; I'm much more interested in what I'm doing, rather than in anything like that.
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Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.
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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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Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.
I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
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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 of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
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What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
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When you look at a Hogarth painting or a Picasso, they didn't take any notice of the mores and constraints of their age: they went and did something that they wanted to do. That's how I see myself.