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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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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."
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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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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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"My songs grow on people - like warts."
People

"Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did."
People

"That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics."
Music

"Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women."
Life

"Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?"
Mind

"I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work."
Work

"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast."
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"There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me."
People

"It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax."
Love

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody."
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