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Robert Wyatt Quotes
Anybody who thinks pop musics easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isnt. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Being big and famous doesnt get you more freedom, it gets you less. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Even if youre specific about the character of the song, its more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I dont do live things. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I dont find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I dont know how many thoughts we have a second, but its quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I dont want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Ricks organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that theyre about the exuberance of youth. Thats the sort of subliminal ideology. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Im just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Im not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and Im sorry that Ive done a Neil Diamond song. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Ive always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
If youve never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, youve got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
In theory, Id like to work in a group. But the group Id like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. Its a very subjective experience. And Im loyal to that experience. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldnt ever have done in their youth. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. - Robert Wyatt Quotes
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