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
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I'm very pleased with the body of work we presented, ... really an apples to oranges.
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The town specified some of the things they would like to see some information on. Those are the things that we're focusing in on.
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There's no such thing as a perfect site, at least I haven't found one in 30 years.
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They're a nation with different needs. A substantial portion of their population lives under the poverty level. We live in a very prosperous country, ... Hats off to the kids (from Zimbabwe) for standing up and doing what they did. Zimbabwe had done a really nice job meeting the pressing needs in their country.
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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'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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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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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.