Robert Wyatt Quotes

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Robert Wyatt

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• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• 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.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Streets
  • Grind
  • Sit

• Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Political
  • Peace
  • Priority

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Age
  • Success

• I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  

  Claude Chabrol

• So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Weight
  • Confident

• Even the gods love jokes.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Gods
  • Jokes

• 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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Respect
  • Surrendered
  • Respectively

• I'm proud to have opened two schools in Africa and one in Jamaica through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.

  

  Serena Williams
  • School
  • Kids
  • Giving

• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Kind

• We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.

  

  Caleb Followill
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Girl

• I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Singers
  • Dominant

• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  

  Kishore Kumar
  • People
  • Movie
  • Knows

• I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Singers
  • Primitive
  • Infantile