Robert Wyatt Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Travel, Adventure

• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Doe

• People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

  Robert Wyatt

  Sexy, Song, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

• There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Night

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

• We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen Trouss, pitchfork.com. October 29, 2007.

• 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

  Song, People, Frank

• I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Sorry, Done

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