Robert Wyatt Quotes

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Robert Wyatt

Moving On, Old, Keep

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.
Robert Wyatt

Music, Nice, Play

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
Robert Wyatt

Love, Politics, Experience

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
Robert Wyatt

Done, Sense, Constant

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.
Robert Wyatt

Amazing, Down, Thoughts

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt

Famous, Freedom, Big

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt

Real, Honest, Clouds

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.
Robert Wyatt

Music, Rock, Wrong

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
Robert Wyatt

Life, Work, Happiness

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
Robert Wyatt

Lost, Against, Artists

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
Robert Wyatt

Money, Taken, Early

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
Robert Wyatt

Music, Single, Find

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
Robert Wyatt

Character, Place, Song

I don't do live things.
Robert Wyatt

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
Robert Wyatt

Business, Someone, Find

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Robert Wyatt

Men, Respect, Rock

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
Robert Wyatt

Writing, Hard, Find

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
Robert Wyatt

Rock, Whole, Felt

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
Robert Wyatt

Character, Question, While

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
Robert Wyatt

Good, Important, Thought

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.
Robert Wyatt

Rock, Fashion, Youth

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.
Robert Wyatt

Business, Happy, After

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Robert Wyatt

Working, Become, Singer

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
Robert Wyatt

Singer, Folk, Infantile

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
Robert Wyatt

Sorry, Done, Song

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Nationality: English

Born: January 28, 1945

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