I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I dont want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. – Robert Wyatt
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. Its a very subjective experience. And Im loyal to that experience. – Robert Wyatt
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. – Robert Wyatt
If youve never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, youve got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. – Robert Wyatt
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. – Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies