English - Musician | January 28, 1945 -
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I don't do live things.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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