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
attempting britain culture remained restore somewhere taken
We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.
knock picking trash trucks
We'd get them back up, and the trash trucks picking up all the debris, would knock them back down.
happens notes song terrible
I take notes all the time, too. You know, something terrible happens to you, and you think, "Bastards. I'm going to write a song about that." And then you do.
sound sung
sound like they're being sung to just one person.
expenses great high nearly pay replace smart stuff time worry
The great thing about this stuff is you don't have to worry about maintaining it. All we have to do is replace it every 10 years or so, and even then our expenses won't be nearly as high as the first time around. We're just having to pay a lot more this time because of our drainage problems. To us, this is just a smart move.
losing somewhere
We thought we were losing transactions somewhere and didn't know why,