Robyn Hitchcock Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Robyn Hitchcock Quotes and Sayings
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After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
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After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
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An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
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As an amorphous, shapeless kid that wanted to be a singer but didn't know how you went about it, that seemed like a starting place.
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As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
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As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
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Dreams are a scientific fact.
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Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
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Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
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Everything is a reaction.
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I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
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I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
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I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
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I think it might just be a record that people could put on when they come out of the bath... something they can put on when they've steamed.
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I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
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I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
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I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
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If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.
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If you do things out of time you're weird.
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In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
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Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
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One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
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People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
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Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
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Production is something I've never come to terms with.
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Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
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So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
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Solo acoustic is what I did originally.
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The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
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This is why at the moment we're still having real performances as opposed to holograms, although in ten years that might change.
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Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
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We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
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Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
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When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
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You can't censor people's dreams.
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You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
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