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"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."

"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."

"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."

"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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"We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together."


"It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw."


"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."


"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense."


"We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think."


"Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make."


"Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns."


"If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you."
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