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
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of… — 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'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
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
I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that… — 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
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
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 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 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 would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was… — 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
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 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
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 Image
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 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 as to… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
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 Image
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s. — 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 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 Image
