Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would … - Van Dyke Parks

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Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Van Dyke Parks

Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.

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