Quotes by Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

Audience

Balance

Should

An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they’re telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn’t communicate. Perhaps that isn’t a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that’s a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly.

Fall

People

Song

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That’s a kind of salvation right there.

Kind

Salvation

Sometimes

Every day I’ll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Grieving

Memories

Shirts

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

Boundaries

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

Ideas

Unison

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

Hands

Song

Three

I think it’s absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one’s been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn’t write about, but that shouldn’t be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.

Song

Thinking

Writing

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they’re labeled.

Looks

Trying

Way

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Action

Song

Trying

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Achievement

Action

Audience

Balance

Bartender

Best Things

Boundaries

Clothes

Communication

Conscious

Death

Effort

Enjoyable

Fall

Fun

Funny

Government

Grieving

Guitar

Hands

Heaven

Home

Ideas

Individualism

Individuality

Inspiring

Interesting

Kind

Looks

Lying

Memories

Men

Nice

People

Player

Records

Rome

Salvation

Shirts

Should

Sometimes

Song

Thinking

Three

Trying

Two

Uncomfortable

Unison

Want

Wanted

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Quotes by Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That’s a kind of salvation right there.

Every day I’ll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they’re labeled.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

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