I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. Robert Wyatt bigcollaboratorinfluence Change image and share on social
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. Robert Wyatt blindexperiencefall Change image and share on social
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. Robert Wyatt elvisfranklive Change image and share on social
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. Robert Wyatt charleenjoyjazz Change image and share on social
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. Robert Wyatt actlotmusic Change image and share on social
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 butterflycaterpillardrummer Change image and share on social
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. Robert Wyatt bitecirculatehard share on social
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 deadgrouplong Change image and share on social
When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. Robert Wyatt babydependfocus Change image and share on social
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. Robert Wyatt crookearlygangster Change image and share on social
