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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.
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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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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.
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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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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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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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