Quotes By 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

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'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.