Latest Robyn Hitchcock Quotes from Interviews

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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.

• The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Country, Couple, Vintage

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Smart, Musician, Hobbies

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 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

• Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Unbearable, Comedy, Crosses

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 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.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Play, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 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

• Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Instinct

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 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

• I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Thinking, Influence, Dylan

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 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

• Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Guitar, Solo, Repeats

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

• I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Couple, Book, Writing

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Book, Mao, Structure

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

• 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.