Robert Wyatt Quotes
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
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I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.
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We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
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In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.
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I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
