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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. "
Robert Wyatt
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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. "
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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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" 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 only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. "
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" I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. "
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" I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. "
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" This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. "
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Single
" In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. "
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Past
Never
" 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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" The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. "
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Culture
" 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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Sad
You
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" 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. "
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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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" We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. "
Robert Wyatt
Gangster
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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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Like
Work
Group
" 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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People
Song
" There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. "
Robert Wyatt
Ideas
Music
Field
" I don't do live things. "
Robert Wyatt
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Live
" 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. "
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Jazz
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" I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. "
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Real
Clouds
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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'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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Diamond
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