Author: Robert Wyatt

Quotes

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

- Robert Wyatt

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

- Robert Wyatt

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

- Robert Wyatt

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

- Robert Wyatt

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

- Robert Wyatt

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

- Robert Wyatt

It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

- Robert Wyatt

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

- Robert Wyatt

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

- Robert Wyatt

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