Quotes by Robert Wyatt

About Robert Wyatt:

Robert Wyatt 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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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.

Robert Wyatt

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

I don't do live things.

Robert Wyatt

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

Robert Wyatt

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.

Robert Wyatt

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.

Robert Wyatt

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.

Robert Wyatt

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

Robert Wyatt

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

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

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

Robert Wyatt

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Robert Wyatt

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Robert Wyatt

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Robert Wyatt

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 get lost and diffused in the world.

Robert Wyatt

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 know.

Robert Wyatt

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

Robert Wyatt

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

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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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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Wyatt
  • DescriptionEnglish musician
  • BornJanuary 28, 1945
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionDrummer; Singer