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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 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

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — 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

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. — 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

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway. — Robert Wyatt

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. — Robert Wyatt

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. — Robert Wyatt

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. — 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 do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. — Robert Wyatt

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. — Robert Wyatt