"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it."

Artist, Artists, Ideology, Talking

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"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it."

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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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"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

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"I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all."

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"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

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"I always saw myself as a multi media artist."

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"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."

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"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that."

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"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."

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"I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far."

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"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."

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"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something."

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"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

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