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
music ideas fields
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
past records made
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
life suicide suicidal
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
money taken paradise
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
nice play people
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
sports fashion thinking
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.
disappointment done constant
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done...
butterfly thinking littles
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar
singing legs bass
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.
drinking giving helping
Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
trying experience energy
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
music swimming thinking
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.
sexy song thinking
People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
race united-states wonderful
The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.