62 quotes found
Musician · English · 1943–2001
English musician (1943–2001)
“Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.”
“I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”
“If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.”
“You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.”
“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: Go away, you bunch of boring people.”
“I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … ...”
“I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no ...”
“I got tired of people saying But what can I do? Also, the reluctance of the press to report the full details created the need to bring attention to it. So the song Bangla Desh was written specifica...”
“Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us.”
“The money we raised was secondary. The main thing was, we spread the word and helped get the war ended ... What we did show was that musicians and people are more humane than politicians.”
“Try to realize it's all within yourself, No one else can make you change. And to see you're really only very small And life flows in within you and without you.”
“Without going out of your door, You can know all things on earth. Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one rea...”
“If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that”
“...the more I learn the less I know...”
“Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.”
“I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps.”
“I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you.”
“I look at the world and I notice it’s turning. While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps.”
“I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.”
“Little darling, It's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, It feels like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun...”