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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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"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one."
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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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"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"
People
"White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people."
Men
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."
Intelligence
"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."
Food
"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."
Music
"When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this."
Opportunity
"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
Pain
"It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think."
Men
"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."
Artist
"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
Culture
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