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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.
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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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.
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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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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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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The missing links in my life's work, no 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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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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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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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 would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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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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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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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 don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
Robert Wyatt
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.
Robert Wyatt
