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.
adjusting finally finding great happiness musicians physically relief remember wheelchair work
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.
fame bigs
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
numbers pieces paper
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.
falling-in-love love-is thinking
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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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.
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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.
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
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.
music ideas fields
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.