“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."” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldLooksPersonsSongPoorHabitSexyPopsHeySensitiveLook At MeCruel WorldSensitive PersonPoor Me Author:Robert Wyatt
“I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.” ThinkingWorld Author:Robert Wyatt
“I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not out of wickedness, but because everybody else in Eurasia was so completely destroyed by the Second World War. Economically, that was quite a useful time for the US, so they ended up in the position of enormous power. And like any great power, they're going to act in their own interests. The problem is due to what the business community wants, which is to make as much money as they can out of what other people do and pay as little as possible for it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarProblemInterestCommunityWesternWar Of The Worlds19th CenturySecond World WarGreat Power Author:Robert Wyatt
“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.” WorldArtWarCultureImagineRevolutionProgramJazzExtraordinaryWar Of The WorldsSecond World War Author:Robert Wyatt
“I don't want an entire world full of people just drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonald's hamburgers and listening to American pop records. That would be a lesser world. I hope the cultural diversity is rich and is able to survive the Westernization of their economies.” PeopleWorldEconomyRichListeningDiversityEatingDrinking Author:Robert Wyatt
“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.” ThinkingWorldCountryLaughingThreatComplainingCommunismHotelCommunistCapitalistHypocritical Author:Robert Wyatt
“I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. You can get away with that your 20s, but not in your 60s, and I'll be 70 next year. Life is a small space now, much more intimate. I'm not out there in the world anymore, but I'm watching.” WorldGivingHelpingTroubleMusic IsDrinkingIntimateGet AwayReckless Author:Robert Wyatt
“Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.” WorldWantKindArtistLostNationsFindingsStandingUltimateNightmareIndividualism Author:Robert Wyatt
“The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.” WorldFeelsCultureYouthDrawsYouth Culture Author:Robert Wyatt
