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
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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.
bound
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
music
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.
knew
As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
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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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When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.
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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.
since superstar
I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.
I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
alienation certain experience people walk work
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.
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In a lot of the things I write, I aim for timelessness. It's not really that hard to do. When you've got something in your mind you have to impart, you're not thinking about Madonna or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bryan Adams or anyone who inhabits the popularized world.
offered pill
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
attending best shape sure travels
I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.