An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
An artist is his own fault.
Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.
So many artists try to be something that they're not.
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