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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. "

Robert Wyatt

Work

People

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Enough

Friends

" 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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Live

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Nature

Solitary

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Done

Going

" 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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Find

Single

" 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

Number

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "