Robyn Hitchcock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Song #Children #Identity
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Norm
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Pain #Distance #Love Is
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Running #Military #Labels
If you do things out of time you're weird.
-- 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

#Thinking #Laughing #People
I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#People #Singers
Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Littles #Found #Boxes
Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Queens #Coming Out #Hardest
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.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Philosophy #Past #Lasts
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Buying #Bob #Dylan
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

#Team #Spring #Thinking
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Pops #Hallelujah
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Christian #Missing Someone #Church
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

#Religious #Icons #Honor
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Two #Drawing #Insecurity
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Cheesy #Firsts #Albums
Production is something Ive never come to terms with.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Term
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

#Song #Mean #Writing
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Boys #Want #Guitarist
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#People #Good Things #Ends
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Crowds
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Consciousness #Process #Mislead
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Fifteen #Musician #Ability
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Balloons #Profile #Increase
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

#Dream #People #Assumption
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

#Numbers #People #Groups
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

#Night #Nashville #Pms
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Jealous #Attention
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
-- Robyn Hitchcock

#Ideas #Records #Want

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