I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.
I don't do live things. - Robert Wyatt
I don't do live things.
- Robert Wyatt
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 re… - Robert Wyatt
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 re…
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not ou… - Robert Wyatt
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not ou…
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. - Robert Wyatt
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke. - Robert Wyatt
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. A lot of t… - Robert Wyatt
I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. A lot of t…
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. - Robert Wyatt
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckl… - Robert Wyatt
I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckl…
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. - Robert Wyatt
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
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