96 Quotes by Richard Thompson

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

We'd get them back up, and the trash trucks picking up all the debris, would knock them back down.

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