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A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
~ Billy Childish
Cut
Fringe
Got
Grow
Grown
Man
Moustache
Out
Same
Want
Woman
You
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
~ Billy Childish
Age
Apt
Art
Authentic
Bankers
Being
British
Call
Challenging
Cowards
Days
Document
Dull
Fan
Find
Heroes
Late
Most
Resistance
Seen
Today
Work
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
~ Billy Childish
Any
Any Other Way
Because
Express
Failure
Fantastic
Get
How
Know
Limitations
Meet
Myself
Other
Way
You
Your
Yourself
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I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
~ Billy Childish
Anything
Art
Back
Because
Being
Boring
Freedom
Like
Limitation
Pop
Sick
Term
Theory
Thru
Treated
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I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
~ Billy Childish
Anyone
Being
Did
Exams
Failed
Falsely
Hated
Later
Like
Praised
Prizes
Reason
School
Tested
Tests
Them
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I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.
~ Billy Childish
Help
I Can
Lot
Spend
Time
Working
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I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.
~ Billy Childish
About
Being
Feeling
Friendly
Home
Ideas
Knowing
Like
People
Talking
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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
~ Billy Childish
Art
Because
Books
Doing
Drawing
Failure
Going
Liked
Listen
Living
Looking
Make
Me
Only
Painters
Painting
Stop
Wanted
Who
Work
Would
Would-Be
You
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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
~ Billy Childish
Cook
Dinner
Job
Make
Painting
Sunday
Sure
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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
~ Billy Childish
Beauty
Gogh
His
I Think
Life
Mythology
Paintings
Think
Unstoppable
Van
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
~ Billy Childish
Also
Blank
Campaign
CDs
Get
Going
New
Pair
Play
Silence
Started
You
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
~ Billy Childish
Achieve
Control
Forced
Like
Over
People
Perfection
Trying
Work
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I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.
~ Billy Childish
Always
Came
Edge
European
Feel
Here
I Came
Like
Liked
Me
Music
New
New York
Play
Play Music
Surprise
Towns
York
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I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
~ Billy Childish
Amateur
Because
Different
Field
Love
Myself
Work
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I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
~ Billy Childish
Admirer
Background
Been
Blue
Blue Jeans
Boil
Chopin
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Flute
Hippy
I Can
Jeans
Listen
Music
Off
Once
Once A Year
Otherwise
Punk
Punk Rock
Put
Rock
Scratch
Shake
Since
Spiral
Swinging
Up
Year
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
~ Billy Childish
Communication
Could
Emotion
Happily
Live
People
Prize
Real
Turner
Very
Without
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
~ Billy Childish
Actually
Anger
Behave
Charge
Destiny
Fact
Hard
Humor
Life
Masters
Only
Our
Own
Presumption
Quite
Realization
Result
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