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Robert Wyatt Inspirational Quotes (40)

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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
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I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
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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.
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Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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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.
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I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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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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I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
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It just doesnt 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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