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43 quotes by Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945, in Bristol) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.
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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.

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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

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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... →

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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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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... →

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I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort... →

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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

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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... →

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

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It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding... →

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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to... →

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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

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