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Richard Thompson

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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