70 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

Let there be more darkness.

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.

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.

I’m not really a good singer. But most people aren’t, either.

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.

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.