"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."

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"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."

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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

John Sebastian, American Musician

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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

Greg Egan, Australian Scientist

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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."

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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."

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"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."

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"Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling."

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"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all."

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"I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version."

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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Desire

"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."

Emotions

"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

Ambition

"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it."

Philosophy

"A real prison breakfast' I said.'Yeah, but we are free.'And that summed it up."

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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

Family

"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."

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"In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."

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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."

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