“Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.”
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.