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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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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Done

Going

" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "

Robert Wyatt

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You

" I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. "

" 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

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Number

" 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. "

Robert Wyatt

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Group

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "