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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
Explore more quotes by Robert Wyatt
"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."
"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 don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."
"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."
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
"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."
"I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer."
"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."
"Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs."
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