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  • Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back and forth about whether this is all of life or whether you're missing something important in living and whether or not, as a humanist, you're abnegating a certain responsibility if this - this art - is just where you are.
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  • Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.
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  • Fame can amplify the message of art in a remarkable, meaningful way.
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  • Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.
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  • For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
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  • People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.
    - David Longstreth