English - Musician | January 28, 1945 -
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
Robert Wyatt
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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
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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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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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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.
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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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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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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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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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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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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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