Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.
For me N. M. E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.
As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.