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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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"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."
"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best."
"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."
"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
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"In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'"
"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."
"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
"In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork."
"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
"If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet."
"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
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