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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

Hours, Studios, Solid, Sushi

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Get, Could, Bob, None

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

Need, Religious, Sure, Worship

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Established, Which, Norm

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

- Robyn Hitchcock

Weird, Using, Implies, Norm

You can't censor people's dreams.

- Robyn Hitchcock

Dreams, People, You, Censor

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

Dreams, Linear, Many, Thin

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

Bigger, Inverse, Proportion, Smarter

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

Die, Through, Means, Diabolical

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Pretty, Seemed, Pretty Good, Ferry

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Balloon, Like, Profile, Increase

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Work, Want, More, Soft

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Line, Most, Drawings, Competent

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Running, Major Label, Major, Campaign

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Doing, Committee, Behind, Acoustic

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

Everyone, Knew, Everybody, Years Ago

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Feel, Always, Everybody, Everybody Else

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Other, Fifteen, Became, Musician

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

Living, Other, Been, Musician

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Process, Consciousness, Misleading

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Everyone, Soon, Like, None

Dreams are a scientific fact.

- Robyn Hitchcock

Dreams, Fact, Scientific, Scientific Fact

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

Other, Everyone, Knew, Lock

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

Mind, Think, Teams, Beatles

Everything is a reaction.

- Robyn Hitchcock

Everything, Reaction

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Doing, How, Particularly, Crowd

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Never, Come, Terms, Production

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Love, Most, Mine, No Exception

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Doing, Been, Couple, Painting

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

- Robyn Hitchcock

Child, Song, Like, Identity

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