"I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s"
- Jonathan Demme
About this Quote
In this quote, Jonathan Demme is reviewing his time as a journalist in London in the late 1960s. He is being self-deprecating by referring to himself as a "sort of rock journalist" and questioning what that even suggests. This suggests that he was not an expert reporter, however rather somebody who wrote about rock music as a hobby or sideline. It also implies that he was not taken seriously as a journalist, and that his work was not seen as important or prominent. This could be since rock music was still fairly brand-new and not widely accepted at the time. Demme's quote shows the altering attitudes towards rock music in the late 1960s, and how it was viewed as a lesser kind of music compared to other genres.
This quote is written / told by Jonathan Demme somewhere between February 22, 1944 and today. He/she was a famous Director from USA.
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