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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"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."
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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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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one."
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"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
Sound
"The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song."
People
"I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company."
Company
"I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman."
Lovers
"I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records."
Thought
"Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there."
Work
"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."
Being
"Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them."
Artist
"But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things."
Love
"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance."
Music
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