People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy." — 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
