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" Artists - 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. "
Life
Perception
Always
" Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. "
Music
Living
Money
" I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. "
Said
I Am
Extraordinary
" I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. "
Good
I Am
Journey
" I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. "
Pianist
Singer
Opinion
" I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. "
Been
Fool
Care
" I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. "
Cry
Sinners
Fun
" If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. "
Love
Time
What You Love
" If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. "
Humanity
Music
You
" I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. "
Theory
Only
Mistakes
" 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. "
People
Because
Boy
" In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. "
Fun
Strange
Way
" I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. "
Man
Rejection
Wish
" I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. "
Healing
Music
Think
" Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. "
Musicians
Good
Understand
" More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. "
Music
More
Literature
" Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. "
Junk Food
Most
Music
" Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. "
Quiet
Want
Hearts
" My songs are like my kids. "
Like
Songs
Kids
" The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. "
Seems
Tomorrow
Always
" There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. "
Paranoia
About
Being
" There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. "
Bad
Good
Nothing
" The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. "
Rock And Roll
American
World
" When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. "
Education
Only
Young
" Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. "
Performance
Musicians
Music
" You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. "
You
Mistakes
Your
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