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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. "
Robert Wyatt
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" The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. "
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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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" The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. "
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" I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. "
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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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" I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. "
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" 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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" 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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" What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. "
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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. "
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" 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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" In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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