I've always had a 'take it or leave it' attitude to fame I'm much more interested in what I'm doing, rather than in anything like that.
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In a lot of the things I write, I aim for timelessness. It's not really that hard to do. When you've got something in your mind you have to impart, you're not thinking about Madonna or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bryan Adams or anyone who inhabits the popularized world.Roy Harper
As a revolutionary and leader of people at the barricades, I failed. But as a person who inwardly revolts all the time, I'm a raging success.
Roy Harper
I've never bothered much about the past, I'm always in the middle of the next step and so the past is really scattered.
Roy Harper
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
They showed me this album sleeve, the new Led Zeppelin album, and I said 'very nice' and handed it back. 'No, go on - look again' they said, and then I saw this song 'Hats off to Harper'. It was very, uh... to be honest, it's been more of a burden than anything. A hell of a thing to live up to.
Roy Harper
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.
Roy Harper
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