Robert Wyatt

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

— Robert Wyatt

#easy #find #make #music #out

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. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#adventure #character #even #exciting #make

I don't do live things. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#live #things

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

— Robert Wyatt

#business #easy #find #i #like

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#absurd #away #banging #find #getting

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

— Robert Wyatt

#come #does #find #hard #i

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

— Robert Wyatt

#i #industry #never #rock #tune

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#bitter #defeat #fresh #fresh start #grow

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#character #choose #emerge #going #i

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#extent #exuberance #fashion #fashion industry #i