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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

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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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Empires
Unfortunately
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The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.
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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 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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My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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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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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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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 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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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 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 missing links in my life's work, no less!
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I don't do live things.
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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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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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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 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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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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