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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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Bristol
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Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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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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 United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
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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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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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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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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.
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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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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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