American - Actor | December 14, 1952 -
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
John Lurie
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I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
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I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.
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If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
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Acting scares me.
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I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.
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I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.
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But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.
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Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?
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The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
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I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
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I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
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