Robyn Hitchcock Quotes - Page 2

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• I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Crowds, Ifs, I Can

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• Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Consciousness, Process, Whole

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• I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Musician, Fifteen, Ability

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• People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Beautiful, Past, Delicate Things

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Dream, People, Assumption

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• I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Jealous, Attention

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• You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Cheesy, Albums, Firsts

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• People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Technology, People, Looks

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Spring, Team, Thinking

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• Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Love And Death, Exception

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• Let there be more darkness

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Darkness

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• I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  People, Want, Kind

  "Robyn Hitchcock: ‘The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Me’". Interview With Keith Valcourt, www.washingtontimes.com. April 5, 2016.

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• The universe is based on sullen entropy;
  It falls apart as it goes on

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Fall, Goes On, Sullen

  Song: The Devil's Coachman

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• If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• If you do things out of time you're weird.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Ifs

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• Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Growing Up, Musical, Listening

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  People, Singers

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• One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Ideas, Records, Want

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• I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Comedian, Causes, Solo

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, music.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Color, Drawing, Records

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Teenager, Drawing, Listening

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

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  Song, Play, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Two, Long

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  People, Laughing, Comedian

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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