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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
Cheating
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Artist
"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
Want
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
Achievement
"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
Now
"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
Music
"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
Individuality
"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
Music
"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."
People
"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
Fun
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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
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"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."
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Personal Development
"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."
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Personal Development
"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."
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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."
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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."
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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
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