Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
Composer
Drummer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
Music
Charles
Thing
Rays
Made
Singers
Enjoyed
Jazz
Number
Youth
Nina
Numbers
Onward

More quotes by Robert Wyatt

Image
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt
Image
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
Robert Wyatt
Image
The missing links in my life's work, no less!
Robert Wyatt
Image
I don't do live things.
Robert Wyatt
Image
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
Robert Wyatt
Image
On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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
Image
The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
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.
Robert Wyatt
Image
I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
Robert Wyatt