Robert Wyatt Quotes

• I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

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• I’m not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

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  Topics in Nature

• 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.

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  Tags in Sorry, Song

• In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

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  Tags in past, Records

• 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.

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• It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

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  Tags in Happiness, Remember

• Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It’s a very subjective experience. And I’m loyal to that experience.

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  Topics in Experience, Politics

• If you’ve never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you’ve got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

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• On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

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  Tags in Whole, Listen, Peers

• 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.

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  Tags in Far, Song, Lives

• 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.

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• The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Live, Bit

• The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren’t particularly youth culture.

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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Culture

• 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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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Music

• People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

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  Topics in Sad

• There’s no field of music which doesn’t have good ideas.

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  Tags in Music, Field

• 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.

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  Tags in Lost, Kind

• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I’ve already done.

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  Tags in Sense, Constant

• 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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  Tags in Lost, Singing

Robert Wyatt (43)

Birth:	28th January, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician

About

Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.

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