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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
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Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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 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 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 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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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'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.
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