Top 48 Robyn Hitchcock Quotes
#1. As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
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#2. I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
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#4. Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
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#5. 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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#6. People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.
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#7. 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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#8. There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
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#9. 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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#10. You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore.
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#11. People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.
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#12. When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
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#14. Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
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#15. As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
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#16. I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.
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#17. You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
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#18. 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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#19. The universe is based on sullen entropy;
It falls apart as it goes on
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#20. 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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#21. Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.
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#22. 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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#23. Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
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#24. I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
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#25. An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
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#26. 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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#27. Production is something I've never come to terms with.
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#29. I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
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#30. If you miss someone too much you turn into them ... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
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#31. I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
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#32. 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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#33. Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
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#34. 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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#36. 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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#37. Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
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#40. 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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#41. Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
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#43. So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
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#44. After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
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#45. Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.
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#46. I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
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#47. Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
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#48. I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
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