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There are singers that I have...

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.

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I think it's hypocritical to ...

I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that the big threat was Communism, so now the countries that were Communists are now rampant capitalists - and they're doing very well, in some ways much better than the UK. Well, we asked for it. We told them that's what you have to do, and they're doing it, buying up your biggest hotels in New York. You have to laugh.

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It was physically difficult, ...

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.

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I've always liked pop music. ...

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.

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There are people I would like...

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.

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I really liked them, not just...

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.

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Love is blind. My politics ha...

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.

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I find writing songs hard, be...

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

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It just doesn't mean anything...

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.

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When I'm singing I try not be...

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.

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If you've never felt that you...

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.

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I think the people who did we...

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.

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I only choose musicians who I...

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

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On the whole, I tend not to l...

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

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When I lost the use of my hi-...

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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People are quite shocked when...

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.

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I'm not, by nature, a collabo...

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

Robert Wyatt 98 quotes

It was physically difficult, ...

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 98 quotes

When there is a voice in a pi...

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.

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I know people who grow old an...

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.

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