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Robert Wyatt Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Apr 2024

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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

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

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

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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.

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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

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There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

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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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People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

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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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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.

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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.

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It just doesn't 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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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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