Robert Wyatt Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

  Robert Wyatt

  Culture, World, Youth

• Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, People, Avant Garde

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

• What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Culture, Accessibility

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

• I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

  Robert Wyatt

  Art, War, Revolution

  Source: pitchfork.com

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