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
sexy song thinking
People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
song writing night
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.
song culture accessibility
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
song character adventure
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.
song writing thinking
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.
song sorry done
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.
song people frank
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.
song writing doe
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
found perfect
There's no such thing as a perfect site, at least I haven't found one in 30 years.
focusing information town
The town specified some of the things they would like to see some information on. Those are the things that we're focusing in on.
land option piece trees
We have an option on an 80-acre piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres. We would keep a lot of trees in the front.
hang money
It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
biggest painters people
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
adjusting finally finding great happiness musicians physically relief remember wheelchair work
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.