"I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan,..." - Quote by John Lennon
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”
“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”
“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”
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“There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.”
“In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.”
“The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.”
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“I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.”
“The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.”
“The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.”