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Robert Wyatt Quotes

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.

Robert Wyatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 28, 1945

Topics

Mother Music Focus Voice Hearing

I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis.

Jim Murphy

Daily Face Think Ancestors Same Us

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Robert Menzies

Man Tough Country More Never May

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

Change Words Risks Climate Change

There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.

Michael Cimino

Service Men People Lost Over Years

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Moment Best Memory Waiting World Up

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

Michelle Ryan

Know Jazz More Never Anything Just

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

Monica

Mother Power Day People Me Negative

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

People Me Process You Pieces Big

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Jonathan Sacks

Leader Technology Today Gold Budget

I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.

Brad Garrett

Large Type

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge World Only Closet Acquired

'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.

Richard Corliss

Best Picture Comedy Suicide Mission