Mellyisms

George Melly: "I can't say I'm yet plugged in to punk rock, but who can tell? I like the safety pins! And I like the iconoclasm, in a way: I think it's healthy that people should revolt and rebel, on whatever cretinous level." - (Crescendo November 1977).

George Melly: "I've always had a resistance to Ella, because I've felt her technical ability is so far in advance of her feeling." 

-  (Crescendo December 1977).

George Melly: “...[Newport Jazz Festival, Middlesbrough], masterminded by the comparatively young and unusually cheerful Mr Andy Hudson, was responsible for a great deal of inter bureaucratic infighting as to noise-levels, strict time-limits, ‘rate-payers’ money’ and other nit-picking considerations.” – (Mellymobile 1970-81 Robson Books, 1982).

George Melly: “The North-East remains the most foreign area of Britain, not only in its Scandinavian vowel sounds, but in its aggressive friendliness and insistent hospitality.” – (Mellymobile 1970-81 Robson Books, 1982).

George Melly: "Ten years on the road I seem to have spent a lifetime looking out of grimy windows in digs at backyards in the rain. Weeds, rotting iron, collapsing outhouses" -  (Jazz Express August 1987).

George Melly: “I think all clubs are like old tarts, sad under full lighting.” – (Slowing Down, Penguin Books 2005).