Robert Wyatt Quotes
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
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And I don't care how simple or convenient it would make things for everyone else if I were to just lie down and die. I will not let myself be killed or captured!
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
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An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
