Gary Clark Jr. Quotes
I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
