Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyattis an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth28 January 1945
relief adjusting musician
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.
hero firefighter people
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
numbers singers rays
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
going-away want adults
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
business talking spinal-tap
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
suicide want stuff
I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.
quality instruments vocal
The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
rocks tunes whole
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
singers primitive folks
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
missing links
The missing links in my life's work, no less!
singing trying singers
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
artist world want
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
important roger band
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.
records pressure come-up
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.