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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."
"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."
"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."
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
"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."
"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."
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