Turkish Progressive music presents : ---ERKIN KORAY-----------------------------
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REMARKS AND CONVERSATIONS :

- 2001. Erkin is going to be 59 soon, but the legend lives on.
Here are listed some collected conversations and sentences said by him in different situations :-


Erkin  : - "Music is nature itself, restriction is wrong..."
           (from Saskin & Eyvah 45's Cover)

citizen: - You seem thoughtful today,
Erkin  : - Better than thoughtless, huh.

citizen: - How, you seem alone.
Erkin  : - After now, not alone...

Erkin  : - "If we go to X's invitation, this not mean we go to XY's invitation."

Erkin  : - "There are 5 senses for the brain. You may lose one ability and life 
		goes on,but if you lose the brain, all the 5 are useless."

Erkin  : - "People thinkin' that 'Honest people are Stupid' are hard to get a 
            Statue in the world. 'Cos in the countries where the people are 
            honest they think about that kind peoples are in fact stupid."

Erkin  : - "Dear organizer! I'm not goin' to concert in order to get money for 
           it,I'm getting money 'cos of i'm goin' and performin'."
	(This reminded me at a saying of Moondog :
		People think that I'm dressed to rack attention, but in fact I track 
            attention because I'm dressed as I do."

Ozan   : - Hey, we were goin' to central Bornova, why you drive into wrong way, 
           goin'to Karsiyaka (,jokin') ?
Erkin  : - We'r almost in the road, and so is Karsiyaka... 
           (Bornova 'n Karsiyaka are districts)

Erkin  : - If your girlfriend pulls you back and goes to another invitation with 
           Her friends, there's no need to go there and disturb them all. If she 
           goes,she goes, you have to pull her too, huh. This is the difference 
           between a teenage and a 58 years old man.

Erkin  : - We always fought but not with our hands, just with our ideas 'cos 
           we'r all hippies, and while we grow up we just want peace. I 
           don't want to talk further 'cos i think Lennon was killed for his  
           peace ideas...

Erkin  : - I'm not afraid of my craft. If time called me to do something before, 
           i went and performed. Never think to give account for it to someone, 
           everyone can think in different ways, they're free. I trust on my 
           wrist so I can perform in a small restaurant or in a stadium for 4000 
           people as now,and never give account for it.
           Before my situation needed to do like that, i did, and when it 
           Happens again, i do like I did before, never take offence at that.

Erkin  : - Before i fought with street vagabonds for havin' long hair. I took 
           A knife to defend myself. I have tons of knife scars in my body, you 
           can see some in my face. I'm still lost in amazement myself how I 
           am still alive. But i think God saw me and thought that I had to live 
           'cos I'm goin' to do good things, so I live. At last I can
           say that there's a nice view.

Friend : - Hey Erkin, you dropped your leather jacket (Erkin drives so fast at 
that time)
Erkin  : - F**k it, i can't stop, i'm almost drivin' fast. (They leave jacket on 
           the road)

Erkin  : - The neighbour's house was burnin' when we were talkin'. Noises were 
coming from street. I ask ask Aydin to have a look, Aydin asked 
Ataman the same, Ataman asked Sedat, always the same queue, because     
After a while when Aydin had a look and added "The neighbour's house 
is burning". We all said "Okay, good" then we continued to talk 
where we stopped. (Yeralti Dortlusu Early 70's)

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