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“Every time people ask me, 'How do we solve this problem or that problem in your opinion?' it's always the same answer: Stay calm and decolonize.”
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“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”
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“That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.”
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“The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.”
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“You have to leave room in life to dream.”
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“Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don’t know if you’re gonna have a dream or what you’re gonna dream about”
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“Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.”
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“Their minds rustle with million dollar bills
You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket
And Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control.”
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You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket
And Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control.”
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“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?”
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