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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
Composer
Drummer
Musician
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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