Robert Wyatt Quotes
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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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.
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Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.
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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.
