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I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

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My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

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I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

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I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.

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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 30th, 1946

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