John Peel Quotes on Art

5 quotes

  1. I don't like encores. It's like, if you see a great painting, you don't want an extra bit painted on the side.

  2. (after playing 'Scream Like an Angel' by Brilliant) - How do these people know what an angel screams like? Answer me that. On one side of a paper only.

  3. (after playing 'Sanctuary' by Vex) - That's Vex and on the back of the sleeve it says 'four individuals with no set ideals making music to provoke thought' - and the thought which most immediately comes to me is that it's almost time that we've had enough records like that.

  4. The musical equivalent to those children's TV programmes where you make a model of the Battersea power station out of egg-boxes.

  5. (After playing Napalm Death's one-second song 'You Suffer') Haha, it can't be that short.

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