Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

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Robyn Hitchcock

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1953

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Robyn Hitchcock

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

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You can't censor people's dreams.

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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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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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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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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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Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

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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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Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

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Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

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If you do things out of time you're weird.

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Everything is a reaction.

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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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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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As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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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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I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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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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Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

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