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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.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
Composer
Drummer
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Recording Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
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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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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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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 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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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.
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I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
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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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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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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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I don't do live things.
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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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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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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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