Robert Wyatt Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

  Robert Wyatt

  Country, United States, States

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

• I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

  Robert Wyatt

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

  Robert Wyatt

  Country, People, Difficult

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that the big threat was Communism, so now the countries that were Communists are now rampant capitalists - and they're doing very well, in some ways much better than the UK. Well, we asked for it. We told them that's what you have to do, and they're doing it, buying up your biggest hotels in New York. You have to laugh.

  Robert Wyatt

  Country, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.

  Robert Wyatt

  Country, Law, Different

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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