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