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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

English Musician

Born: Jan 28, 1945

Me Music People Think You Youth

Related authors: David Bowie Elton John Harry Styles John Lennon Mick Jagger Ozzy Osbourne Paul McCartney Yungblud

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

Clouds To Be Honest Mystic Real Real Thing Nostalgia Prefer Thing Honest

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

Music Swimming Think Way Bit Scene Wrong Wrong Way Liked Sort Because Rock Always Misunderstanding Avant-Garde Really Pop Pop Music

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 experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. Robert Wyatt

Love Politics You Love Is Experience People Fall Think Too Has-Been Ideas Blind Been Subjective Very Loyal

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

Moving On Me People Old Fresh Start Defeat Bitter Would Would-Be Know Fresh Making Want Them Who Grow Keep Start Suicidal

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. Robert Wyatt

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

Freedom You Big More Get Gets Being Famous Less

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it. Robert Wyatt

Try Singing Out Feel Singer Comfortable Get Just Capital

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, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. Robert Wyatt

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

Peers Tend Listen Whole

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 and banging away. Robert Wyatt

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 adventure out of the sequence of the songs. Robert Wyatt

Character You Song Way Out About More Songs Exciting Adventure Make Place Them Sequence Such A Way Even Specific

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