tisdag, december 13, 2005

Guilty pleasures

Ok. Jag är lite sucker för sånt härnt. Jag skulle aldrig för hela livet vilja lära känna personer som fällt några av de här citaten. Men det är ju så förbaskat roligt att läsa om musikers odödliga uttalanden. Läs bara.

Peter Grant: My name is Peter grant and I am the manager of Led Zeppelin.
Bob Dylan: Do I come to you with MY problems?
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Intervjuaren: I vilken riktning är jazzbashistorien på väg just nu?
Jaco Pastorius: Mot toaletten!
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Journalist: when does a band sell-out?
Mick Jones (The clash): well, you know. when you´re giving a show in the evening, and the fans start queing up early in the morning. and then later that day when the stadium is filled, and there´s no more tickets available. well then its a sell-out.
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Lou Reed: "One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
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Elvis Costello: To write about musik is like dance to architecure
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Bob Dylan till Leonard Cohen; "How long did it take for you to write Hallelujah?
LC; Ten years. How long did it take to write Blowin´in the wind?
BD; Two minutes
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Intervjuare: Did you hear TATU's version of How Soon Is Now?
Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Intervjuare: They're two teenage Russian lesbians.
Morrissey: Well, aren't we all?
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Frank Zappa: Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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John Coltrane: When I get started, I don't know how to stop playing
Miles Davis: Try taking the fuckin' thing out of your mouth
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Jan Johansson: Det måste finnas ett sätt att spela tonen C så folk bryter samman.

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