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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."

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"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."

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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."

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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."

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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."

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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."

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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

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Kevin Ayers
"England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Kevin Ayers
"That was something. As opposed to nothing."

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