Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

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.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

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

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

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

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

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.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

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.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

Let there be more darkness

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

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

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.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

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.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

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

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.

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

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.