“I was a punk before you were a punk” – The Tubes

“Coxsone, Duke Reid – they didn’t think it was good music at all. After I cut tunes like Humpty Dumpty, They Got To Come My Way, Time Longer Than Rope and African Blood – and they were big hits on my soundsystem – they used to talk about how people were following ‘Buster’s little boop boop beat’. They scorned it. When I arrive at JBC studios with Count Ossie to cut Oh Carolina, Duke Reid was there and he see Ossie with his lickle drum in his hand and he laughed… They were jazz people at heart and here I was a lickle youth, coming up with what they thought was simple music.”

“I was mod before you was a mod” – Television Personalities

“I wanted to stop at a [London] snack bar late at night to get a cup of tea and there were two or three English boys standing around it. The other people in the car didn’t want to stop in case there was trouble but I’m a friendly sort of person and don’t see why I can’t walk anywhere. I got out and these guys approach me, look me up and down and tell me I must be OK because I’ve got on the same narrow foot pants as they have. Then I went on tour and there was this same group of white kids at every show, in front of me. Everywhere I went they would make sure everything was alright. They’d ride along all around my car on their scooters like I was royalty.”

Prince Buster interviewed by Lloyd Bradley in the “Q Classic” Bob Marley & The Story of Reggae issue.