Creativity Quote by Robert Wyatt

Wyatt delivers the quietest kind of boundary-setting: not the glamorous artist-as-hermit myth, but the logistical reality of a musician whose body and geography narrow the radius of possibility. The line starts with an open door - "people I would like to work with" - then immediately shows you the hinge: access. "Out in the sticks" isn’t a pastoral pose; it’s a practical obstacle in an industry that still runs on being seen, being around, being available at the bar after the set. When he adds the wheelchair, it’s not framed as tragedy or inspiration, just another constraint that turns networking into labor.

The phrase "can’t really circulate" does double duty. On the surface it means moving through rooms, scenes, cities. Underneath, it’s about circulation as currency: the social motion by which collaborations get brokered, gigs get offered, reputations stay warm. Wyatt is naming how much of music culture is built for the mobile and the urban, and how quickly talent can be sidelined by infrastructure, not taste.

Then comes the small, defiant pivot: "So I tend to stick to my own thing". It’s resignation with teeth. He’s not claiming purity, he’s choosing a workable sovereignty. The subtext is almost accusatory: if the system makes participation conditional on physical and social agility, then "my own thing" becomes less an aesthetic preference than a survival strategy - and, in Wyatt’s case, a way to keep making art without begging for entry.