"When I lost the use of my hi-hat……" — Robert Wyatt
"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 of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
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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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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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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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More Bass Quotes
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one of 320 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined…
— Geezer Butler
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
— Stanley Clarke
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Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
— Les Claypool
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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since…
— Les Claypool
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus.…
— Ikue Mori
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
— Nicki Minaj
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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