Art & Creativity Quote by Mick Taylor

There is a sneaky kind of humility baked into Mick Taylor's complaint: the problem isn't boredom or ego, it's abundance. "Impossible to fit in" frames the show not as a product delivered on schedule, but as a container that keeps springing leaks. For a guitarist whose legacy is tied to expansive, improvisation-friendly rock, the line nods to a core tension of live performance: the audience wants the hits, the band wants the stretch, and the clock wants neither.

The specificity of "an hour and 45 minute show" does real work. It's not a romantic "we could play all night" myth; it's a concrete runtime that hints at venue curfews, touring logistics, aging bodies, and a modern concert economy where pacing is engineered. Taylor's phrasing repeats "fit in" like he's mentally arranging a setlist in real time, suggesting the backstage labor fans rarely see: songs as choices that inevitably exclude other songs, moods, solos, even versions of the band itself.

Subtextually, it's also a gentle defense against the unspoken accusation that can follow any legacy act: that they're coasting. Taylor implies the opposite. The catalogue is still alive enough to be overcrowded, and desire (the band's and the audience's) still exceeds the allotted frame. It's a musician's way of saying the music isn't finished with us, even when the schedule is.