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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.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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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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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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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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