Top 34 Roy Harper Quotes
#1. On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
Marc Guggenheim
#2. As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
Roy Harper
#3. 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.
Roy Harper
#4. The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together ... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.
David Cameron
#5. Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.
Pharrell Williams
#6. In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
Roy Harper
#7. 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.
Roy Harper
#8. If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.
Roy Harper
#9. Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
Richard King
#10. What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
Roy Harper
#11. Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.
Willie Stargell
#12. At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
Roy Harper
#13. 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.
Roy Harper
#14. She also smiles up at him, and all that's missing is rose petals drifting down and violins playing.
Jo Raven
#15. I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
Roy Harper
#16. Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.
Aldis Hodge
#17. I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
Roy Harper
#18. I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
Roy Harper
#19. I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words ... and it's gonna stay there.
Roy Harper
#20. 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.
Roy Harper
#21. What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.
Roy Harper
#22. 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.
Roy Harper
#23. I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.
Martin Freeman
#24. 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.
Roy Harper
#25. Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.
Michael Connelly
#26. 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.
Roy Harper
#27. I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
Roy Harper
#28. I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
Roy Harper
#29. I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.
Roy Harper
#30. As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
Roy Harper
#31. I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me ... and also the downfall of me.
Roy Harper
#32. I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
Roy Harper
#33. 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.
Roy Harper
#34. It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.
Roy Harper
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