Richard Thompson Quotations

Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.