Quotes from Robert Wyatt

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.

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.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

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.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.