Re-make/Re-model Quotes

“Bryan Ferry: ‘It’s always sad when I go back to Newcastle and see that certain places don’t exist any more. But it’s great that one shop – which was very important for me also – is still there, in a wonderful old arcade, with extravagant tiled floors, rather like the Bond Street arcades. It’s a shop called Windows, which is a family music shop and the only place you really go to buy records. The windows are full of clarinets, saxophones, electric guitars – a proper music shop, which sold everything. But just to see a trumpet in the window – a real instrument, to look at it and study it!”
― Michael Bracewell, Roxy: The Band that Invented an Era

“Before beginning, mark the solemn words of ‘Nigel Norris’ – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman’s television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, ‘The Road’: Norris: ‘I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.”
― Michael Bracewell, Roxy: The Band that Invented an Era

“Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, ‘above all … a state of mind’.”
― Michael Bracewell, Roxy: The Band that Invented an Era