I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
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The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
An artist is his own fault.
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