Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyattis 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth28 January 1945
relief adjusting musician
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
missing links
The missing links in my life's work, no less!
powerful building-up ideas
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.
thinking trying rock-n-roll
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
real clouds nostalgia
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
work long groups
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.
comedian comedy life-is
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
character thinking musician
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
numbers pieces paper
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.
fame bigs
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
trying experience energy
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.