Robert Wyatt / Wyatt-Ellidge/ quotes English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine Born: 01/28/1945 Country: united_kingdom

• I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. (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)
• I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. (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 think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. (Robert Wyatt)
• 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. (Robert Wyatt)
• 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)
• 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. (Robert Wyatt)
• In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. (Robert Wyatt)
• 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. (Robert Wyatt)
• It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. (Robert Wyatt)
• It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. (Robert Wyatt)
• 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)
• 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)
• On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. (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)
• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? (Robert Wyatt)
• The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. (Robert Wyatt)
• The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. (Robert Wyatt)
• 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)
• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. (Robert Wyatt)
• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. (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)
• 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)
• We did not get any money from th (Robert Wyatt)
• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. (Robert Wyatt)
• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. (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)
• 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)
• 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. (Robert Wyatt)

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