Peter Asher quotes

“Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.”
-- Peter Asher

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“Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!”
-- Peter Asher

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.”
-- Peter Asher

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“The best music of any era lasts well, I think.”
-- Peter Asher

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“In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.”
-- Peter Asher

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.

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“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.”
-- Peter Asher

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.

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“In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio.”
-- Peter Asher

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“I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.”

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

“I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.”

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!”

“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”

“It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen”

“Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.”

“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”