"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer." — Robert Wyatt
"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."
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Robert Wyatt
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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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More Folk Quotes
This quote is filed under Folk Quotes,
one of 496 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label…
— Joan Baez
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
— Theodor Adorno
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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes…
— Bono
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
— Noam Chomsky
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
— Ian Anderson
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie…
— Piers Anthony
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I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their…
— Unknown Author
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their…
— H. L. Mencken
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