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We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
Robyn Hitchcock
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Robyn Hitchcock
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 3
Film Actor
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock
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Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.
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Love is the distance between reality and pain.
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The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.
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After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
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One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
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I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.
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If you do things out of time you're weird.
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I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
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Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
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After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
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Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
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If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
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People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
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If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.
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As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
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I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
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I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.
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I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.
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I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
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If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.
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