Robert Wyatt Quotes

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

I don't really know or care about trends.

Being independent gives me freedom to creatively be great. Standing on your own doesn't always get major exposure or support, but because I make music from a pure place, I am more so excited and relieved that it actually gets out into the universe.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.

I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

When you really do feel like an alien, and you really do feel like a space creature, and you really do feel you want to experiment and dress up and be different every day, to find what looks best but never stick to one thing... Just the fact that that was offered to those kids during that time is pretty remarkable.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.