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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.
Robert Wyatt
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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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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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We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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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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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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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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 don't do live things.
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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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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I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
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The missing links in my life's work, no less!
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I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
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What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
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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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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt
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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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
