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"As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there."
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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 it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."
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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs."
Thinking
"Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them."
Cliches
"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way."
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"It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things."
Thought
"I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed."
Music
"Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work."
Work
"There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled."
People
"There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen."
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"The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to."
Internet
"As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there."
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