English - Musician | January 28, 1945 -
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
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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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I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
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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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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
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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.
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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
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