Robert Wyatt quotes - page 2

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. (Robert Wyatt)
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. View quote
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. View quote
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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. View quote
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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 a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs. View quote
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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. View quote
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. View quote
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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. View quote
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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 so I feel comfortable with it. View quote
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I don't do live things. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Robert Wyatt

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Photo: Original picture taken by Helena Dornellas, GFDL
Occupation: English Musician
Born: January 28, 1945
Quotes count: 43