John Spiers famous quotes

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.
-- John Spiers

#People #Difficult #Music Is

If someone doesn't hate what you're doing - you're not doing very well.
-- John Spiers

#Hate #Doing You #Wells

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.
-- John Spiers

#Play #Definitions #Heard

Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more times a song has been passed down the generations the more brilliant and concise it becomes as every link in that chain can add something good or remove something unnecessary.
-- John Spiers

#Song #Survival #Links

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Obviously music is my first job.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!