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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
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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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