Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

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  Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

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• Dreams are a scientific fact.

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• An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

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• As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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• Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

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• After the Soft Boys I just didn’t want to work with any more guitarists.

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• After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

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• As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

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• I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

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• I thin many people’s deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear… as if there’s an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

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• I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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• Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

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• Everything is a reaction.

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• I can tell how I’m doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

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• I became a musician because that’s really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

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• People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

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• I’ve been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it’s time to do all the other stuff.

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• If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh… or they’d lock each other up.

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• Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I’m most competent at.

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• In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and – I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical – beyond the day I die.

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Robyn Hitchcock (32)

Birth:	3rd March, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar.

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