Tuesday, July 15, 2025

spot the idiot

"Message songs are a drag!" 

- Bob Dylan, datebook magazine 1966


“Elektra is not the tool of anyone's revolution. We feel that the revolution will be won by poetics and not by politics - that poetics will change the structure of the world." 

- Jac Holzman of Elektra Records, in Rolling Stone 1969


"The act of being in a band and strapping on an electric guitar is a political action" 

- Jon Spencer, The Quietus, 2025

1 comment:

  1. You could make the case that John Spencer is right, just not in the way he thinks he is.

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