"The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

David Toop

#Years Quotes #Unions Quotes #Musician Quotes

“The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.”
“The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.”
“The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.”
“Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.”
“the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.”

Source : Drew Karpyshyn (2007). “Mass Effect: Revelation”, p.140, Del Rey
“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.”
“Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.”
“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”

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