Quotes of Robert Forster - somelinesforyou

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ I do contemplate making an album that's entirely unlike The Go-Betweens as everyone seems to know us, but maybe that's a dream. It really is a tempatation at times, though. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles. ”

- Robert Forster

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass. ”

- Robert Forster

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles. ”

- Robert Forster

“ The other thing about this reunion tour is that we're not all being represented by different lawyers and travelling in different tour buses and there are no rows about who gets to walk onstage first each nights - the sort of situation that we know exists on other reunion tours… ”

- Robert Forster

“ The other thing about this reunion tour is that we're not all being represented by different lawyers and travelling in different tour buses and there are no rows about who gets to walk onstage first each nights - the sort of situation that we know exists on other reunion tours… ”

- Robert Forster

“ I do contemplate making an album that's entirely unlike The Go-Betweens as everyone seems to know us, but maybe that's a dream. It really is a tempatation at times, though. ”

- Robert Forster

“ People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us. ”

- Robert Forster

“ People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too. ”

- Robert Forster

“ People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass. ”

- Robert Forster

“ People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us. ”

- Robert Forster

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles. ”

- Robert Forster

“ Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles. ”

- Robert Forster

“ I do contemplate making an album that's entirely unlike The Go-Betweens as everyone seems to know us, but maybe that's a dream. It really is a tempatation at times, though. ”

- Robert Forster

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster
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