Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. — 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
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy… — 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 really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not… — 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
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
