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"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."

"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."

"If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues."

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

"I think people of lesser talent will become stars."

"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
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"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."


"It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it."


"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."


"I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice."


"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those."
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