“I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living in music without going on the road, but I couldn't get booked without a new product. People say, "Where's your new album?" Well, I have no new album, and I'm not going to have a new album. They said, "What are you doing?" I'm performing music that I've done my entire life that I've never performed, and I'm promoting material that I haven't promoted.” PeopleDoneArtistI RealizedPerformingPerforming Arts Author: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.” WellsSelfArtistSufferingValuesOrderImaginationFailingSacrificeEconomicAchieveAmountDefinitionsLoyaltyUncertaintyDaringShelterHierarchyVerticalReinvention Author:Van Dyke Parks
