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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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" 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. "

Robert Wyatt

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Butterfly

Drummer

" 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? "

" I don't do live things. "

Robert Wyatt

Things

Live

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Enough

Friends

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

Robert Wyatt

Youth

Fashion

" The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. "

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

Robert Wyatt

Nature

Solitary

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

" There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. "

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

" 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. "

Robert Wyatt

Jazz

Number

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

Robert Wyatt

Done

Going