Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
Guitarist, songwriter, and performer who played with the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth3 April 1949
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We're out to change America, ... Cats are hiding in homes and dogs are out on the street causing trouble. We're going to bring cats to the forefront.
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We're preparing our case for an ultimate review by the Supreme Court of the United States,
knock picking trash trucks
We'd get them back up, and the trash trucks picking up all the debris, would knock them back down.
losing somewhere
We thought we were losing transactions somewhere and didn't know why,
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Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back
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I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
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To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
wanted
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
wish too-late poet
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.
lying writing home
Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.
god religious facts
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
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There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.
artist thinking firsts
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
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Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.