Robert Wyatt Quotes

• 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.

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Rock

• 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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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Men, Rock

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Felt, Rock

• 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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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Fashion, Rock

• 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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Live

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

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Find

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Song

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

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Find, Moment

• 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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  Tags in Need, Amazing

• 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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  Tags in Hard, Writing

• Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.

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  Tags in Freedom

• I don’t do live things.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Honest

• 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.

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Keep, Start

• 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.

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Play

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Become

• I’m just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singer, Folk

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

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important

Robert Wyatt (43)

Birth:	28th January, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician

About

Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.

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