Quote of the Day (Graham Parker, on Why Pop Musicians Make Bad Actors)

“Pop musicians are too full of themselves to act properly.  It’s all preening and posing for us.  We mug, we mime, we throw shapes, we pose, we do weird things with our eyeballs, but we can’t act.  I think deep down many musicians, myself included, consider acting and film making a much higher art form and we wish we were actors.  We spent too many time in music trying to manipulate people’s emotions in under ten seconds.  It’s excessively phony.  I don’t know why there aren’t more actors whose music is any good, though.  But let’s leave Jeff Bridges out of this.  He’s allowed to do anything and it’s always good.” —English singer-songwriter Graham Parker quoted by Cameron Crowe, “When Musicians Act – And It’s Not Terrible,” Vanity Fair, January 2013

The image accompanying this post, showing Graham Parker after his set at Brit's Pub in Minneapolis, MN, was taken July 18, 2010, by Susan Lesch.