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Robert Wyatt Biography

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.

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The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

Country, Start, States, United States

I don't want an entire world full of people just drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonald's hamburgers and listening to American pop records. That would be a lesser world. I hope the cultural diversity is rich and is able to survive the Westernization of their economies.

Cultural, Diversity, Drinking, Eating, People

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

Culture, Draw, Particularly, World, Youth

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Adults, Earn, Going Away, Money, Want

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

Clouds, Mystic, Nostalgia, Prefer, Real

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Effective, Instruments, Quality, Vocal

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

Latecomers, Left, Everyone, Slow, Maybe, Politics

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

Folk, Folks, Primitive, Singer, Singers

I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.

Country, Different, Law, Show

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.

Adventure, Character, Juxtapose, Place, Song, Travel

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.

Extent, Fashion, Industry, Sports, Subliminal, Thinking

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

Back, Empires, People, Somehow, Want

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

Country, Difference, Leave, Mean, Naturally, Thinking

I understand why Vladimir Putin is very popular in Russia - he's probably the first Russian leader to not apologize for being Russian. People always pin it down to one man, but there's hundreds of millions of Russians of various sorts. Putin does seem to be very popular in Russia, if only because he stands up for Russians wherever they are, which is exactly what Americans do with Americans, of course.

Men, People, Leader, Russia, Popular, Man

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

Doe, Set, Song, Songs, Songwriter, Writing

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

Made, Past, Records, Sketches

We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

Done, Earn, Song, Think, Thinking, Writing

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

Listen, Peers, Tend, Whole

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

Thinking, Differences, Soldier, Sing, Think, Singer

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

Rock, Rocks, Tune, Tunes, Whole

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