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I don't do live things.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
Composer
Drummer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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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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 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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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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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 was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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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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I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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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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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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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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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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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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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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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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