Robyn Hitchcock Quotes & Sayings

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

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

You can't censor people's dreams. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them. — 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

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

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

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. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other. — Robyn Hitchcock

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box. — Robyn Hitchcock

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

Dreams are a scientific fact. — Robyn Hitchcock

Love is the distance between reality and pain. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

If you do things out of time you're weird. — Robyn Hitchcock

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. — Robyn Hitchcock

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple. — Robyn Hitchcock

Everything is a reaction. — Robyn Hitchcock

Production is something I've never come to terms with. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

Let there be more darkness — Robyn Hitchcock

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