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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"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."

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."

"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."

"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."

"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work."

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody."

"It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax."

"I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney."

"Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together."

"The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill."

"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast."
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