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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.
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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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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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.
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Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
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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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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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People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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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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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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What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
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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.
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I don't do live things.
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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 was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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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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The missing links in my life's work, no 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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