34 Quotes by Roy Harper

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

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

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.

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.

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

When you look at a Hogarth painting or a Picasso, they didn't take any notice of the mores and constraints of their age: they went and did something that they wanted to do. That's how I see myself.

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

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.