English - Musician | January 28, 1945 -
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
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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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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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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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.
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