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Roy Harper
English
June 12, 1941
Musician
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
Roy Harper
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I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.
Roy Harper
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I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
Roy Harper
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What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
Roy Harper
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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.
Roy Harper
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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.
Roy Harper
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At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
Roy Harper
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