"There are singers that I have enjoyed, from……" — Robert Wyatt
"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 me as a youth was jazz."
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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 Charles Quotes
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
— Lewis Black
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
— Eli Broad
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over…
— Bill Bryson
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood…
— Nicolas Cage
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just…
— Ray Charles
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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