C.C. Wyatt Quotes

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

For like to like, the proverb saith.

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

I don't do live things.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again.