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" A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast. "
Steve Martin
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" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "
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Talking
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" I'm enamored with the art world. "
Steve Martin
World
Art
Art World
" I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head. "
Steve Martin
Music
Thought
Interesting
" Nothing I do is done by popular demand. "
Steve Martin
Popular
Nothing
Demand
" I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book. "
Steve Martin
Book
Say
Thought
" I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. "
Steve Martin
Kind
Music
World
" I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing. "
Steve Martin
Think
Light
Me
" I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. "
Steve Martin
Tired
Wasting
Will
" I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy. "
Steve Martin
Care
Actor
Business
" I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating. "
Steve Martin
People
Experience
Life
" Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been. "
Steve Martin
Love
Science
Technology
" I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. "
Steve Martin
Detail
Working
Sing
" Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming. "
Steve Martin
Know
Hard
Kind
" I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers. "
Steve Martin
Professional
Fact
Best
" Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. "
Steve Martin
Dinosaurs
Did
Humans
" Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way. "
Steve Martin
Me
You
Mind
" I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. "
Steve Martin
I Believe
Wilderness
Country
" In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. "
Steve Martin
Just
Stand
Comedy
" When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was. "
Steve Martin
Risk
Thought
Heart
" The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. "
Steve Martin
Something
American
Past
" Well, excuuuuuse me! "
Steve Martin
Well
Me
" I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. "
Steve Martin
Art
Out
Idiot
" When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. "
Steve Martin
Comedy
Magic
Stage
" I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. "
Steve Martin
Way
Why
Truth
" I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. "
Steve Martin
You
My Own
Book
" I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. "
Steve Martin
Pretty
Paper
Nothing
" With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. "
Steve Martin
More
Comedy
Never
" I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response. "
Steve Martin
You
Yourself
Off
" I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. "
Steve Martin
Believe
Money
Natural
" I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them. "
Steve Martin
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