Top 43 Quotes by Robert Wyatt

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

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 really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

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

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

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.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

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

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.