People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I'll probably lose every friend I've got, but I think the Russians are about the only people who have behaved decently in… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I understand why Vladimir Putin is very popular in Russia - he's probably the first Russian leader to not apologize for being… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I don't want an entire world full of people just drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonald's hamburgers and listening to American pop records.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share
