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Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar.

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After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Boys, Guitar, Guitarists, Soft, Want

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

Beatles, Pythons, Spring, Team, Thinking, Time

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

Color, Drawing, Records, Covers, Stuff

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

Comedian, Comedians, Consequence, Know, Laughing, People

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Guitar, Musically, Repeats, Same, Solo

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

Good, People, Singer, Singers

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Balloons, Increase, Like, Lower, Profile

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

Drawing, Listening, Pencil, Sitting, Teenager

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

Generally, Instinct, Noncommercial, Unpopular

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Drawing, Drawings, Insecurity, Line, Playing, Two

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Long, Look, Nashville, Night, Pms, Studios

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

Dylan, Play, Song, Songs, Unless, Would Be

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Die, Mean, Song, Songs, Thing, Writing

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Back, Looks, Machinery, Painting, People, Technology

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

Burdened, Like, Play, Song, Songs, Thinking

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Death, Exception, Love, Love And Death, Song

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Crowd, Crowds, Dead, I Can, Ifs, Tell

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Book, Couple, Good, Sustained, Take, Writing

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Acoustic, Ideas, Produce, Records, Want

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Distance, Pain, Reality, Sad

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