“I think what a lot of people forget is that a lot of the music in the '60s and the '70s was made in the spirit of daring, spontaneity, and adventure, so the minute all that sinks into this sense of a classic form, it has lost its spirit.” PeopleThinkingMadeFormSpiritLostForgetMinutesAdventureClassicDaringSpontaneity Author:Justin Adams
“There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless, you had musicians like George Harrison or Bryan Jones recording the musicians of Joujouka in North Africa.” PeopleWayMusicianTraditionBryanNorth AfricaEnglish Music Author:Justin Adams
“I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.” PeopleWayWantTryingMy OwnInspiredAdmireCopies Author:Justin Adams
“In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they often cover the mouth-piece with spider webs or something that resonates, so that their voice gets distorted, ceasing to be the voice of a human and becoming representative of a voice that comes from another world.” PeopleWorldHumansSpiritOrderVoicePiecesHeardParticularBecomingMouthsTraditionalMaskRepresentativesSpidersAnother WorldEmbodimentSpider Web Author:Justin Adams
“I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.” PeopleThinkingSometimesEnoughLanguageProcessCommunicateMessPoetry Is Author:Justin Adams