John Martyn Quotes : Mfyi.com
Mfyi.com
 Music - For Your Information
Browse Artists:  # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


John Martyn Quotes

John Martyn Quotes

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.
John Martyn, Magnet

Very few people are trying to reach the heart these days...I feel strongly that there's a great dearth of the heart everywhere right now.
John Martyn NME 7/1973

I often thought of faking my own death and watching the record companies fucking drum up all the shit they can...
John Martyn Classic Rock 6.00

I was very shy and retiring until I was 20 and then I just got the heave with Donovan and Cat Stevens and all that terribly nice rolling up joints and sitting on toadstools watching the sunlight dapple its way through the dingly dell of life's rich pattern stuff!
John Martyn Q 1990

I'm an original. I feel good that no-one else ever before had played the guitar like I do. That's important to me. I hope to get a whole lot better, to make a bigger contribution.
John Martyn Melody Maker 4.11.78

There's still nobody who can do what I do. I'm Still unique.
John Martyn Zig Zag, 3/77

I like doing as much new stuff as I can...the thing is, there's still a demand for older material. One time, this woman came bursting into my dressing room after a show and screamed,'Seven Pounds Fifty and no fucking Solid Air ? It's a disgrace !
John Martyn Magnet

I love women, I must confess. They are my weakness...but then I'm a romantic. The problem is they're so beautiful aren't they? Children even more so they genuinely are such an inspiration.
John Martyn NME 10/10/81

I try to balance my own favourites, the songs I really like playing, with what the audience wants to hear. It usually works out!
John Martyn Melody Maker 4/11/78

(on Nick Drake...) I don't want to talk about Nick. It's creepy, ghoulish and strange; this lionisation is too late when you're dead. If they'd dug him enough then, he'd still be here now.
John Martyn Classic Rock 6.00

I guess I'm a little arrogant, but then anyone who's played jazz guitar and hasn't got some sort of arrogance in them is obviously a lemon!
John Martyn NME 22/12/84

...there's a split in my audience; there's still a section that wants me to go back to what I was doing 10 years ago. When I first got the band I got terrible letters the suit was the main culprit!
John Martyn Q, 1990

If I've been working on anything for the last six years it's becoming a better singer, and I think I'm getting there ... I don't like singers who abuse the privilege to sing... People like Morrissey just piss me off ... I like notes that go up and down, melody and harmony. Having said that, I'm very interested in hip-hop. I love all that sub-bass shit and kick drum shit. There's no reason why you can't have a really kicking track and a really sweet vocal on top. That's what I'm looking for.
John Martyn to Guitar Mag. after 'No Little Boy'

I used to hang with everybody, but it's dangerous because you get drunk. Everyone wants to buy you a drink.
John Martyn 1998

I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.
John Martyn

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.
John Martyn

I'm still excited by music, I wish it would go away. Working with Levon Helm and The Band was very soulful; I liked that. And I loved Andy Shepard's solo on My Creator (from On The Cobbles). I loved Paul Weller as well. That was fun.
John Martyn

I used to come out in sweats and rashes and get terrified. It wears off after a while. But you're a fool if you don't get nervous. All I know is they'll have to take me off with a harness before I stop playing.
John Martyn

'Hows your leg John?' Comes a shout from the audience. 'It's fine, thanks for asking...which one do you mean?'
John Martyn's end of tour show at Liverpool's Royal court theatre, the first tour since Johns right leg was amputated below the knee in 2003

I?'ve had a very lucky life. People used to feel sorry for me because I came from a broken home, as it was called in those days. It was great. I didn?'t have any brothers and sisters to wreck my train set or annoy me. I was very happy and I was brought up by my granny and grannies are awfully good at bringing up wee boys.
John Maryn

I don?'t need embellishment. I?'ve been nailed under the carpet. Literally true. I've been nailed under a carpet.
John Martyn

When I was really ill I got quarter of a million hits on the website. All wishing me well, saying we love you and get well soon, etcetera. It?'s comforting to know that. In fact, last week I had a fellow who had made a pilgrimage from Carolina to come and see me. I gave him a cup of tea and he went off very happily. It was very odd.
John Martyn

They came to me to record an album and I thought, ?'Why not?'? Since then I?'ve carried on because I?'ve had no desire to stop.
John Martyn



Post Update
( Click on button to post an update to this information )


Browse Artists By Letter
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


© Mfyi.com