"People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication."
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"Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me."
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"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles."
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"True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely."
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"I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him."
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"An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share."
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"A great artist is a great man in a great child."
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"Art moves. Hence its civilizing power."
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"The true artist can only labor con amore."
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"An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone."
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"You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective."
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"Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony."
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"In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing."
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"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
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"I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business."
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"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
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"Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God."
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"Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals."
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