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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.
Robert Wyatt
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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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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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