Robert Wyatt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

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

“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.”

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

“When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.”

“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 that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.”

“My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.”