"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

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"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

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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."

John Sebastian, American Musician

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Richard Thompson, British Musician

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Greg Egan, Australian Scientist

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Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer

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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."

Kathleen Battle, American Actress

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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."

Jerry Lawler, American Entertainer

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"I cannot exist as a solo artist."

Courtney Love, American Musician

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"Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling."

Ted Lange, American Actor

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"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all."

Joe Lando, American Actor

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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."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"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."

"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."

"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."

"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."

"I cannot exist as a solo artist."

"Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling."

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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."

"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."

"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."

"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."