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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
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"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."
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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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"If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens."
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"Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting."
Work
"Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house."
Play
"I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience."
Love
"It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not."
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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
Artist
"When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub."
First
"A happy wife is a happy life."
Life
"I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo."
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"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
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