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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
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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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
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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'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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