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"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
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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 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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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."
Fans
"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
People
"I try and write honestly about what I see around me now."
Now
"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
Punk
"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
Ideas
"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
Theory
"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them."
Honesty
"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
Time
"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."
America
"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."
Politics
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