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Richard Thompson

"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

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"I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me."

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"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."

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"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

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"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"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."
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"It's amazing what some people read into songs."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
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