Quotes by Robyn Hitchcock

About Robyn Hitchcock:

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar.
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After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

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One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

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Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

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If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

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As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

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Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

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I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

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The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

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So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

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I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

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Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

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Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

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Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

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I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

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An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

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Production is something I've never come to terms with.

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In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

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Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobyn Hitchcock
  • DescriptionEnglish singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • BornMarch 3, 1953
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer-songwriter; Songwriter