The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

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Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

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I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

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The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

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No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

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