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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
Playing
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Around
Musicians
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Music
Mostly
Play
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The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.
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The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.
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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.
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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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We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
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I don't do live things.
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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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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.
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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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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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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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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'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 consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
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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 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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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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