Robyn Hitchcock quotes
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“An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.”
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“Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.”
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“Love is the distance between reality and pain.”
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“Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.”
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“If you do things out of time you're weird.”
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“If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.”
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“I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.”
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“Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.”
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“Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.”
-- Robyn HitchcockSource : Song: Queen Elvis II, Album: Eye
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“There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.”
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“I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.”
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“When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.”
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“As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.”
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“If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.”
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“We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.”
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“Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.”
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“You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.”
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“Production is something Ive never come to terms with.”
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“In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.”
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“After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.”
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“As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.”
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“I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.”
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“Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.”
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“I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.”
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“Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.”
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“I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.”
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“People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.”
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“After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.”
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“I was always jealous of something getting more attention.”
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“One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.”
-- Robyn Hitchcock
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