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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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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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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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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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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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
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He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
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My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.
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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.
