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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#became #completely #contribution #else #good

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#go #me #page #real #surprise

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#extent #exuberance #fashion #fashion industry #i

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#butterfly #caterpillar #drummer #ground #grub

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friends #judgment #like #many #may

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#got #in the past #made #many #never

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#group #i #like #long #musicians

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#elvis #elvis presley #far #frank #frank sinatra

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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