A collection of quotations form the sleeve notes for this release.
“John Martyn Anthology… a male Billie Holiday.”
Guy Barker – Jazz Arranger
“I’m just beginning to learn why I’m playing. I’m a talented man and I can use that talent in music. And music is an essential communication. It can be used for good.”
John Martyn
“There’s a place between words and music and my voice lives right there.”
John Martyn
“The fact I’m a professional musician is an accident. I didn’t set out to be one. They came to me to record an album and I thought: ‘Why not?’ Since then I’ve carried on
just because I’ve had no desire to stop.”
John Martyn
“Mostly I give my singing seven and a half out of ten. But about once every three years or so, you hit nine and a half. And when it happens, you never really know why it happens.”
John Martyn
“I must confess I prefer writing love songs to anything else. They come easily to me.
I don’t know why, it’s not as if I am an abnormally loving person. I’m an incurable romantic and that can be uncomfortable in these troubled and cynical times. But I am proud of it and I am not going to change now.”
John Martyn
