Author: Robert Wyatt

Quotes

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

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

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

- Robert Wyatt

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

- Robert Wyatt

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

- 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

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'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

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