Top 60 Quotes & Sayings by Robyn Hitchcock
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Robyn Hitchcock.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
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.
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
If you do things out of time you're weird.
You can't censor people's dreams.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
Dreams are a scientific fact.
Production is something I've never come to terms with.
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
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.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
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.
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.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
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.
Everything is a reaction.
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.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
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 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.
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
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 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.
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.
I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
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.
The universe is based on sullen entropy;
It falls apart as it goes on
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'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
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.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.
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.
Let there be more darkness
Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.
Production is something Ive never come to terms with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.
I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.
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.
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
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