Charles Shaar Murray Quotes

United Kingdom, Journalist
June 27, 1951

Charles Shaar Murray is an English music journalist and broadcaster. He has worked on the New Musical Express and many other magazines and newspapers, and has been interviewed for a number of television documentaries and reports on music.

Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !

Charles Shaar Murray
- Art
- Magic
- Magician
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.

Charles Shaar Murray
- Past
- Problem
- Common

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

Charles Shaar Murray
- Trying
- Broken
- Process