"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to……" — Robert Wyatt
"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."
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45 Quotes by Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt has 45 quotes on this site.
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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done...
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Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such…
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in…
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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably…
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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a…
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I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the…
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live…
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There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks…
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate…
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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out…
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
— Erykah Badu
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
— Georges Bernanos
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw…
— Lewis Black
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile…
— John Boehner
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
— Richard Brautigan
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