Barney Hoskyns quotes
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“When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.”
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“But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.”
-- Barney Hoskyns
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“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
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“We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.”
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“I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.”
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“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”
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