"I have been to restaurants in Soho whose denizens have crossed social and geographical barriers to reach them. In one, I have seen a girl sitting amid musical pandemonium with a book open on her knees and her little finger entwined with that of her true love. Of course, she was not really listening, not really reading and not communicating with her friend in any way that required effort or style.

"It would be hard to say whether the jukebox caused the death of human speech or whether music came to fill an already widening void, but unless the music is stopped now, the human race, mumbling, snapping its fingers and twitching its hips, will sink back into an amoebic state, where it will take a coagulation of hundreds of teenagers to make up a single unit of vital force. Which, once formed, will only live on sedatives, consume itself on the terraces of football stadia and die."

Quentin Crisp's contribution to Cherry Red Records' Pillows And Prayers album, 1982.

Posted by Hg on Saturday 25 January 2003 at 14:11.
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Ah, God be with the days... Favourite track?

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