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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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 consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
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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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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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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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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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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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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