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
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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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.
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I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.
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It just doesnt 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.
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
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There's no such thing as a perfect site, at least I haven't found one in 30 years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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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.
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The bar has come up, and it's going to be very competitive. We stack up reasonably well in the morning round. Our chief competitor in the morning round is Russia.
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Teachers, after teaching a certain amount of time, they have to earn a master's degree and they have to do it while they work.
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The faces of our students after they realize the enormity of what they have accomplished through the years,