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"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"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."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."

"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along."

"Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do."

"I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally."

"Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap."

"The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers."

"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."
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