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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

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
Done
Going
Disappointment
Keeps
Constant
Already
Sense

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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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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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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What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
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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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