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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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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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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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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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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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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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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