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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

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

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"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."

"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."

"I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?"

"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."

"You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s."

"And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date."

"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

"The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking."

"The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business."

"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."
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