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Roy Harper
English
Musician
Born:
Jun 12
,
1941
Best
Me
Music
People
Together
You
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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.
Roy Harper
Culture
World
Better
Remember
Own
Situation
Out
My Own
Records
Felt
Still
Were
Than
America
Social
Turning
Separated
Ignorant
Thirteen
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
Best
Myself
Together
People
Other
Out
Like
Couple
Also
Prove
Get
Just
Here
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
Together
Humanity
Other
State
Secure
Would
Would-Be
More
Mentally
Well-Balanced
Still
Huge
Familiar
Bunch
Any
Different
Turned
Us
Much
Each
Now
Need
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
Other
Ways
Scale
Introduction
Some
Given
Civilisation
Abuse
Because
Continue
Lot
Huge
Which
Lament
Room
Us
Each
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
Roy Harper
Me
Conservative
Half
Someone
Only
Take
Pill
Offered
Controlled
Bodily
Ever
Careful
I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
Roy Harper
Bone
Member
Folk
Scene
Never
Really
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
Roy Harper
Life
Music
People
General
More
Towards
Attitudes
Than
Wanted
Modernize
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
Me
Writing
School
Become
Thinking
Brought
Had
Songs
Daydreaming
Like
Learn
Because
Always
Doing
Up
Articulate
Fiddling
Really
Therapy
Grow
Grow Up
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
Music
Age
Listening
Before
Young
Bits
Classical
Echoes
Stuff
Like
Well
Hall
Child
Young Child
Really
Radio
As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
Roy Harper
Knew
Soon
Heard
Wanted
Loved
Play
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