Peter Asher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.
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Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
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I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
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The best music of any era lasts well, I think.
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In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
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Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.
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In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio.
-- Peter Asher
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
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Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
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Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
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It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
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