Top 23 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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