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“There are two categories of producers. Let me explain. [The} first one produces an artist the way they want to hear them, without a whole lot of regard to what the artist is really like, or how they see themselves. I'd like to think that I'm in the other category. I liked the artists that I produced – a lot, or else I wouldn't produce them, and what I wanted to do was enhance what they do already. I just wanted to make it better, more polished, put the best frame around it I could.”
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“The free press is the single most powerful instrument the framers handed directly to citizens as defense against government deceit. Citizens who accept politicians' lies that all journalists lie are swallowing whole the lies of professional liars.”
― To Tell the Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent
― To Tell the Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent
“It may go without saying that the majority of the musicians in this book hate "musicians". Hence walking into a music store of any kind besides a record shop is tantamount to visiting the dentist.”
― We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001
― We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001
“The revolution will be achieved when everybody is nobody.”
― The Little Red Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao
― The Little Red Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao
“Communism would exit the world stage revealed for what it truly was: fascism, without fascism’s ability to make the trains run on time.”
― Balkan Ghosts
― Balkan Ghosts
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