Robert Wyatt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.”
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“People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."”
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“I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.”
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“I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.”
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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 not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.”
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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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“I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.”
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“I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.”
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“I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.”
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“Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.”
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“We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.”
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“Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.”
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“People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.”
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“Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.”
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“The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.”
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“The United States is a country where everybody can start again.”
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“Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.”
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“I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.”
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“The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.”
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“Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.”
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“What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.”
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“There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.”
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“I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.”
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“I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.”
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“What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.”
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“I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.”
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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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“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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“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.”
-- Robert Wyatt
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