"So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits."

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"So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits."

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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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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"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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"You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place."

Peace

"It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?"

Life

"Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character."

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"It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act."

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"It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with."

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"The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill."

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"So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits."

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"Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever."

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"Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings."

Change

"One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album."

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