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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."

"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."

"I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney."

"Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California."

"It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan."

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

"If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money."

"Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together."

"The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill."
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