Top 43 Quotes by Robert Wyatt

I don't do 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.

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

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

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

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

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.

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

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.