"It's Wierd not to be Wierd."
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"We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?"
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"Don't need a gun to blow your mind"
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"I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it."
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"As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much."
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"I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up."
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"It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again."
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"There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic."
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"The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'"
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"The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us."
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"Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange."
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"The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC."
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"Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything."
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"Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true."
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"Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway."
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"I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals."
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"I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it."
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"I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage."
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"'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'."
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"I always read the papers, the political bits."
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