Best Roy Harper Quotes & Sayings

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

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

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes. — Roy Harper

I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice. — John Cornyn

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

Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of years that mine has. I do not believe however that I have ever made a bad record and I have certainly never made a record to which I didn't give my complete commitment. — Greg Lake

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

The weird thing is, hearing stories like this makes me feel a kind of kinship with the Almighty, because it proves that even God has psychotic episodes. — Neal Shusterman

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. — Greg Boyle

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing. — Roy Harper

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

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

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets. — Roy Harper

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

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene. — Roy Harper

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

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it. — Roy Harper

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half. — Roy Harper

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

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper

Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen. — Tom Althouse

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think. — Roy Harper

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so. — Christopher Hitchens

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

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general. — Roy Harper

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

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

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

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

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray. — Anupam Kher

God gives us Love, something to love, God lends us. — Alfred Tennyson

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

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

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

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude. — Meles Zenawi