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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."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"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."
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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."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"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."
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"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
Programming
"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."
Children
"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
"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."
People
"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."
Time
"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."
People
"It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out."
Integrity
"I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did."
College
"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
Artist
"The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day."
Day
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