Robert Wyatt Quotes

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."

Robert Wyatt

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• Song
• Habit
• Sexy
• Poor
• Sensitive

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • School
  • True

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Love
  • Fun

• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • Why
  • Awesome

• Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Same
  • Say
  • Psychology

• I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
  • Silly
  • Bothered

• Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Struggle
  • Matter
  • Fate

• If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Finish

• When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Growth

• Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • God
  • Knowledge

• This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Eyes

• One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

  

  Frank Langella
  • World

• If you're going to walk out of the house in jeans and T-shirt, what can you do to make that interesting? Is it putting on a bright-colored pair of high-tops or a cool leather jacket?

  

  Brad Goreski
  • High
  • House
  • Interesting

• I really don't like the way most movies and TV shows are supervised - I hate when there's someone singing over dialogue, songs just thrown in there.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Hate
  • Singing

• I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.

  

  Alex Prager
  • Green
  • Los Angeles

• 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."

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • World
  • Song
  • Habit