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Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

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Richard Hell
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
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Lexington
Kentucky
Richard Lester Meyers
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I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
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It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.
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I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.
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Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
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It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.
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I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.
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If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.
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I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.
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You're always thinking, What does that add up to? You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.
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I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.
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Things always change, and New York teaches you that.
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The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.
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When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
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I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.
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Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.
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I believe in people treating each other with respect.
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we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.
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There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.
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