Top 23 Quotes by Roy Harper

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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