Robyn Hitchcock Quotes
"I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities."
- Robyn Hitchcock
"Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Change, Consciousness, Misleading, Right)
"Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon."
- Robyn Hitchcock
"Dreams are a scientific fact."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, Fact)
"As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: People, End, Questioning)
"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Identity, Song)
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Debate, Night)
"After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Work, Boys, Want)
"As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird."
- Robyn Hitchcock
"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Buying)
"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Ideas, Committee, Want)
"Using the word weird implies that there is a norm."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Word)
"So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else."
- Robyn Hitchcock
"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Military, Running)
"Production is something I've never come to terms with."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Production)
"Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at."
- Robyn Hitchcock
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Intelligence, People)
"Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Love, Death, Songs)
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Hope, Day, Doubt, Songs, Will, World, Writing)
"If you do things out of time you're weird."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Time)
"Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Painting, Years)
"I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Time, Living, Now)
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Honor, Religious, Worship)
"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Attention)
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, People, Behavior)
"I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead."
- Robyn Hitchcock
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: People, Thinking)
"You can't censor people's dreams."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, People)
"You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Time, First, Pretty)
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Years)
"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."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Time, Mind, Spring)