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Robert Wyatt Quotes

Robert Wyatt quotes

English Musician January 28, 1945

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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 together and banging away. Robert Wyatt
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 a caterpillar. Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt quote: "I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot,..."
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song. Robert Wyatt
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. Robert Wyatt
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 an adventure out of the sequence of the songs. Robert Wyatt
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 lost and diffused in the world. 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. Robert Wyatt
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. Robert Wyatt
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. Robert Wyatt
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt quote: "The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of,..."
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt quote: "In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like..."
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt quote: "We did not get any money from the early records. It was all..."
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. Robert Wyatt
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 have done in their youth. Robert Wyatt
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. Robert Wyatt

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