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When I first started listening...

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

I could never be a professiona...

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Just as with a guitar, you can...

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

I don't really have the gift o...

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

We have a need to be religious...

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.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

The universe is based on sulle...

The universe is based on sullen entropy;
It falls apart as it goes on

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Let there be more darkness...

Let there be more darkness

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

You realize that the first Bry...

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Playing acoustic and line draw...

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

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Most songs are somewhere betwe...

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

The Beatles were something eve...

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.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

You realize that the first Bry...

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

You can't censor people's drea...

You can't censor people's dreams.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

When you think about great tea...

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Well, I've been painting for y...

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

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

We have a need to be religious...

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.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Using the word weird implies t...

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

The Beatles were something eve...

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.

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

So whenever I hear The Beatles...

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

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

Promoting a record on a major ...

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

Robyn Hitchcock 71 quotes

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