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I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
— 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
I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
— Robert Wyatt
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
— 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
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
— Robert Wyatt
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
— Robert Wyatt
I don't do live things.
— Robert Wyatt
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
— Robert Wyatt
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
— Robert Wyatt
What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
— Robert Wyatt
The missing links in my life's work, no less!
— 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 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'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
— Robert Wyatt
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.
— Robert Wyatt
I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.
— Robert Wyatt
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
— Robert Wyatt
On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
— 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
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
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
— Robert Wyatt
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
— Robert Wyatt
The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
— 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
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
— Robert Wyatt
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
— Robert Wyatt