Robert Wyatt

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#business #decade #define #did #happy

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#butterfly #caterpillar #drummer #ground #grub

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#folk singer #i #infantile #just #primitive

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. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#dislike #done #full #i #i do

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

— Robert Wyatt

#collaborator #i #influences #like #nature

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#got #in the past #made #many #never

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#group #i #like #long #musicians

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. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#anything #around #big #enough #friends

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#age #done #ever #heroes #last

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

— Robert Wyatt

#listen #peers #tend #whole