"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist."

Art, People, Artist, Giving

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"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"One thing the blues ain't, is funny."

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"God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it."

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"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist."

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"I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away."

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"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."

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"The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art."

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"That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it."

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"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."

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"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

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"I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar."

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