"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."

-- Ken Burns

#Mean Quotes #Artist Quotes #Choices Quotes

“There are no musically untalented people.”

Source : "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.
“The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.”
“I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.”
“Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself”
“We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.”

Source : "Alabama Official: Self-Deportation is What We Want" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. October 6, 2011.
“There's always been physical suffering in comedy.”
“The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'”
“The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

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