Quotes by Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

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

Rock N Roll

Thinking

Trying

Because I’m associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I’m looking down on popular culture, but I don’t want to be part of a new elitism.

Avant Garde

People

Thinking

Because of my politics, people think I’m anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don’t like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Government

People

Thinking

Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Bigs

Fame

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don’t think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

America

Civilization

Thinking

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.

Drinking

Giving

Helping

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.

Adventure

Song

Travel

I can’t imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late ’40s and ’50s.

Bebop

New York

Revolution

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

Comedian

Comedy

Life Is

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

Thinking

World

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Accessibility

Adults

Adventure

America

Art

Artist

Avant Garde

Baby

Band

Bebop

Bigs

Building Up

Business

Butterfly

Character

Civilization

Clouds

Come Up

Comedian

Comedy

Constant

Country

Crazy

Culture

Differences

Different

Difficult

Disappointment

Diversity

Doe

Done

Drinking

Empires

Energy

Experience

Falling In Love

Fame

Fashion

Fields

Firefighter

Folks

Frank

Friends

Giving

Going Away

Government

Happiness

Hate

Helping

Hero

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Quotes by Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

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

Because I’m associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I’m looking down on popular culture, but I don’t want to be part of a new elitism.

Because of my politics, people think I’m anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don’t like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don’t think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

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.

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.

I can’t imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late ’40s and ’50s.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

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