Robert Wyatt Quotes & Sayings
43 most famous Robert Wyatt quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 79 year old British musician born on Jan 28, 1945.
“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.”
“We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.”
“What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.”
“I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 of subliminal ideology.”
“I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.”
“When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.”
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