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When You Reach That Kind Of Successful Pinnacle, It Is The Nature Of The Business And The Press And Everything That They Go About Tearing You Down.

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When You Reach That Kind Of Successful Pinnacle, It Is The Nature Of The Business And The Press And Everything That They Go About Tearing You Down.

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An Unhappy Mother Does Not Raise A Happy Child.

Abstract Expressionism Was Invented By New York Drunks.

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I Create By Feeling Rather Than By Intellectualizing.

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A Little Lawyer On The Tube, He Said, Its So Easy Now, Anyone Can Sue.

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I Do Have This Reputation For Being A Serious Person.

I Get The Urge For Going/but I Never Seem To Go.

The Only Thing I Have To Give To Make You Smile, To Win You With, Are All The Mornings Still To Live.

You've Got To Shake Your Fists At Lightning Now, You've Got To Roar Like Forest Fire You've Got To Spread Your Light Like Blazes All Across The Sky They're Going To Aim The Hoses On You, Show 'em You Won't Expire Not Till You Burn Up Every Passion, Not Even When You Die Come On Now, You've Got To Try, If You're Feeling Contempt, Well Then You Tell It If You're Tired Of The Silent Night, Jesus, Well Then You Yell It Condemned To Wires And Hammers, Strike Every Chord That You Feel That Broken Trees And Elephant Ivories Conceal

I Always Thought The Women Of Song Don't Get Along, And I Don't Know Why That Is.

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You Wake Up One Day And Suddenly Realize That Your Youth Is Behind You, Even Though You're Still Young At Heart.

A Few Drinks Later You're Not So Choosy When The Closing Lights Strip Off The Shadows On This Strange New Flesh You've Found.

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I Heard Someone From The Music Business Saying They Are No Longer Looking For Talent, They Want People With A Certain Look And A Willingness To Cooperate. I Thought, That's Interesting, Because I Believe A Total Unwillingness To Cooperate Is What Is Necessary To Be An Artist — Not For Perverse Reasons, But To Protect Your Vision. The Considerations Of A Corporation, Especially Now, Have Nothing To Do With Art Or Music. That's Why I Spend My Time Now Painting.

Depression Can Be The Sand That Makes The Pearl. Most Of My Best Work Came Out Of It.

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