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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'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, You've got to drive on the right, I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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 do live things.
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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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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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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.
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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 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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