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All Quotes by author - Robert Wyatt

" Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. "

" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "

" 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. "

" I don't do live things. "

" I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. "

" I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. "

" 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. "

" I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. "

" 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. "

" I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. "

" I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. "

" I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. "

" I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. "

" I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On the whole, I tend not to listen to my 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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