Andrew Loog Oldham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
-- Andrew Loog Oldham

#Important #Rolling #Looks
You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.
-- Andrew Loog Oldham

#Water #Pool #Knows
I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.
-- Andrew Loog Oldham

#Growing Up #Fighting #Issues
Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?
-- Andrew Loog Oldham

#Kids #Unique #Rocks
I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van [Morrison] on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.
-- Andrew Loog Oldham

#Baby #Second Chance #Blue
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
-- Andrew Loog Oldham

#Artist #Great Art #Products

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

Andrew Loog Oldham famous quotes

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