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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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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."
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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 think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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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."
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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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"I cannot exist as a solo artist."
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"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."
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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level."
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"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."
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"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."
Men

"I love all kinds of music."
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"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
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"My first love was the sound of guitar."
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"As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano."
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"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."
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