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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."
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"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."

"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."

"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."

"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."

"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."

"Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something."
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