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• You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

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• You can’t censor people’s dreams.

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• When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

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• Well, I’ve been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

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• We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody’s sure in honor of what.

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• Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

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• The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

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• So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I’ve got a lot in common with everybody else.

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• Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

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• Production is something I’ve never come to terms with.

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• Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I’m most competent at.

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• People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

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• One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn’t want to have to produce it by committee.

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• Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

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• In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and – I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical – beyond the day I die.

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• If you do things out of time you’re weird.

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• If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh… or they’d lock each other up.

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• I’ve been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it’s time to do all the other stuff.

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• I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

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• I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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Robyn Hitchcock (32)

Birth:	3rd March, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar.

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