Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
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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.Robert Wyatt
The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
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There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
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