Ben Watson > Quotes

“Since Punk, no-one is certain what garbage might not become gold”
― Ben Watson, Art, Class & Cleavage: A Quantulumcunque Concerning Materialistic Esthetics

“It's when you meet another wretch who is as negative as you about everything that the thunder rolls and the lightening crashes and real life starts - because genuine communication has started”
― Ben Watson, Blake in Cambridge

“My one regret is that my own knowledge of European literature at that time was too shallow to inform him that there is also a poodle at the centre of Goethe’s Faust (the diabolical Mephistopheles first appears to Faust in the form of a giant, shaggy, black poodle).”
― Ben Watson, Frank Zappa: The Complete Guide to his Music