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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

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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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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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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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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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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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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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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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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 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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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar
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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 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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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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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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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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