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" The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. "
Robert Wyatt
Youth
World
Culture
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Find
" On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. "
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" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "
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" I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. "
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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. "
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Just
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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'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. "
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Just
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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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You
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" 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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" 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. "
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People
Done
Age
" 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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Work
Group
" 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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You
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Feel
" 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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" The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. "
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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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Never
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. "
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