Quotes By Robert Wyatt

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.

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

It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

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

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

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

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.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.