John Peel quotes - Page : 5

" (after playing 'In a Rut' by The Ruts) - I think it's fair to say that modern music is back in that rut again, actually, lots of beautiful youths in meaningful trousers. " # Music # Youth # Beauty

" (after playing 'Sanctuary' by Vex) - That's Vex and on the back of the sleeve it says 'four individuals with no set ideals making music to provoke thought' - and the thought which most immediately comes to me is that it's almost time that we've had enough records like that. " # Music # Individuality # Ideals and Idealism

" The name of the next artiste appears to be Daniel Ponce but it's actually pronounced, I think, Pon-che, and the track itself is called Bastardo Cuentos which translates approximately as 'Oh no, not another Spanish referee'. " # Quotations # Translation # Arts and Artists

" (after playing 'Another Black Friday' by The C.U.B.S.) - It's called 'Another Black Friday' and the press of it has been good as far as I can tell: 'the best production at the present time','a rise to new musical directions', 'a brilliant fusion of body and brain' ... I don't know, that sounds like a motorcycle accident. " # America # Music # Media

" 'Party Line' by Abbreviated Sealing, and of course whenever I criticize the name of a band somebody will write in and say "Of course what you don't realize is that it's a quote from Jean Jacques Pissoir's Vortex - A Threnody", and it may well be so. " # Image # Quotations # Writers and Writing

" And from Richard, one of the three pieces of mail which arrived this week, and it says 'Look out for the German all-female ensemble called Breast. Have they made any records?' Well if they have I certainly wouldn't be able to play them on the BBC, not with a name like that, because at the BBC nobody has breasts of course. But here at BFBS they look at things very differently. I've got quite a reasonable set of breasts myself actually. " # Cooperation # Love # Music

" Kevin (one of the engineers), our man in the studded leather bracelets and AC/DC tour jacket says that they sound like a very sick Judas Priest, but of course in my estimation Judas Priest sound like a very sick Judas Priest. " # Politicians and Politics # Engineering # Love

" Here's an oldie which I always enjoy, you probably loathe it, I don't know, don't really care. It's my programme, not yours. " # Computers # Enjoyment # Friends and Friendship

" A card from Michael, and he says, could I play a record for his friend who has just come back from Nepal after two and a half years where he's been talking with the stones. I'm not entirely sure this isn't a medical condition actually, Michael. If the stones have been talking back to him, then I think we have real cause for concern. " # Stardom # Friends and Friendship # Love

" And Kay wrote to me from Bielefeld, where he or she is stationed. He or she or uncommited, I don't know. " # Commitment