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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.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
Composer
Drummer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.
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I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, You've got to drive on the right, I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
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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.
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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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I don't do live things.
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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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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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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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What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
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There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.
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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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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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