Robert Wyatt Quotes

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• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done...
• 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 make…
• 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…
• Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were…
• When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit…
• 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…
• Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
• 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…
• There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in…
• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get…
• When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with…
• The missing links in my life's work, no less!
• 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. Wouldn't it be…
• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for…
• My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever…
• 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.…
• 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…
• I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
• I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

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