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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
Robert Wyatt
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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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Drummer
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
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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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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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'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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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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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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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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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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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 was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world. Or the pop thing of: Hey, look at me, I'm sexy.
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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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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.
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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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There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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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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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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