Quotes By Robert Wyatt

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

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.

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.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

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.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

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.