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"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
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"Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground."
Right
"As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible."
People
"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."
Living
"It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did."
People
"Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?"
People
"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
Programming
"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."
Consciousness
"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."
Business
"I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me."
Life
"It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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"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."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist."
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"Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave."
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