Robyn Hitchcock - Quotes
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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. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
If you do things out of time you're weird. ---->>>
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
I was always jealous of something getting more attention. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple. ---->>>
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end. ---->>>
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird. ---->>>
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. ---->>>
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff. ---->>>
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. ---->>>
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. ---->>>
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists. ---->>>
Production is something I've never come to terms with. ---->>>
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity. ---->>>
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities. ---->>>
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead. ---->>>
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. ---->>>
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. ---->>>
You can't censor people's dreams. ---->>>
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Biography
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After reaching prominence in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys, Hitchcock launched a prolific solo career. His musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Syd Barret and Roger McGuinn (wikipedia)