Robert Wyatt
Books by Robert Wyatt
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The Voyage of Robert Dudley, Afterwards Styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland, to the West Indies, 1594-1595
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George Gershwin Reader
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Quotes by Robert Wyatt
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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.
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I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
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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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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
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There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
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It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
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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.
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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
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