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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

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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 just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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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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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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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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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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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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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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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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People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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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 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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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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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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