Richard Thompson Quotes (58 Quotes)


    I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it.

    There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

    I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

    We're out to change America, ... Cats are hiding in homes and dogs are out on the street causing trouble. We're going to bring cats to the forefront.

    Some students have actually taken a class project and used that as the basis for starting their own business.


    Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.


    The great thing about this stuff is you don't have to worry about maintaining it. All we have to do is replace it every 10 years or so, and even then our expenses won't be nearly as high as the first time around. We're just having to pay a lot more this time because of our drainage problems. To us, this is just a smart move.

    Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

    A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid. It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that.

    Everyone agrees what has happened is totally wrong. But the solution is way too broad for what has been discussed here.


    This is the kind of surveillance system that really allows us to first identify how far the disease is spreading and then to rapidly move in and cull birds that might have been exposed and to clean areas to reduce the possibility that humans can become in


    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.

    It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.



    It's hard to tell where one tour ends and the next begins. I'm generally touring most of any year. I'm just generally out there doing it.

    Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

    People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

    When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

    They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be the problem with the Discovery Institute.

    I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

    We're preparing our case for an ultimate review by the Supreme Court of the United States,

    It was a good day for the school board, ... Miller admitted it was a religious or philosophical statement and that book is still being sold in the United States and he is receiving royalties from it.

    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.

    the prerogative of the elected members of the school board and consistent with science education.

    This issue is bubbling under the surface all over the country, but the Dover board had the courage of their convictions.

    To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

    You've got the east-west problem because only three corridors go that way. I've heard anything between 10,000 and 20,000 extra people are in town. It's a huge difference. I've never seen it this bad.

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

    There are two worldviews that are in conflict. I do feel that even though Christians are 86 percent of the population, they have become second-class citizens.


    It was upsetting at first, but then you realize there's not much you can do about it. We were very lucky no one was hurt. You can always replace buildings, but not someone's life.

    There were three pandemics in the last century. Most people alive today lived through two of them without really noticing them. This wasn't a major trauma to societies or economies or even to health systems. So pandemics can occur which have relatively minor effects.

    Compromises have been made -- this is not being taught in class. We don't advocate teaching intelligent design at this point.

    Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world.

    I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

    I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

    I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

    We thought we were losing transactions somewhere and didn't know why,

    I take notes all the time, too. You know, something terrible happens to you, and you think, Bastards. I'm going to write a song about that. And then you do.

    Popular is a tricky word. People in large numbers don't always have the best taste. I prefer to concentrate on songs that are deserving, but slightly too arcane to be in every household - the also-rans, the misfits, the hidden jewels.

    But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

    If we lose this case you're going to see intelligent design taught in schools all across the country,

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

    We're creating our own content because it's very important to be out there with marketing that people say is unique and different.


    All the Dover school board did was allow students to get a glimpse of a controversy that is really boiling over in the scientific community,


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