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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 have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

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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.

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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

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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.

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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

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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... →

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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope... →

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People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I... →

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Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an... →

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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It... →

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