Quotes By Robert Wyatt

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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.

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

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.