Top 35 Robyn Hitchcock Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let there be more darkness.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

2. “Love is the distance between reality and pain.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

7. “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

8. “Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

9. “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

10. “Coming out’s the hardest part, when you’re Queen Elvis.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

11. “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

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

13. “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

14. “I’m good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

15. “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

16. “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

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

18. “Production is something Ive never come to terms with.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

19. “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

20. “After the Soft Boys I just didn’t want to work with any more guitarists.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

26. “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

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

28. “I was always jealous of something getting more attention.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

29. “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

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

31. “If you do things out of time you’re weird.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

32. “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

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

34. “Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I’m most competent at.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

37. “I can tell how I’m doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.”

— Robyn Hitchcock