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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.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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Drummer
Musician
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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 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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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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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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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 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 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'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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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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I don't do live things.
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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 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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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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The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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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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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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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