Top 23 Quotes by 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.

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

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 was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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