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Type: Composer Quotes Category: English Composer Quotes Date of Birth: August 16, 1944 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Kevin Ayers Related Authors: Gavin Bryars Michael Tippett Fred Frith Peter Maxwell Davies Anne Dudley Thomas Beecham Rupert Holmes Peter Warlock |
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
Kevin Ayers I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom. Kevin Ayers That was something. As opposed to nothing. Kevin Ayers The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. Kevin Ayers These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. Kevin Ayers We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. Kevin Ayers |
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