82 Quotes by Jim Carroll
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Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
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I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.
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When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden, the pure young poet comes back... and I'm hanging out with the Rolling Stones.
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It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.
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I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.
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It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.
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These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.
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Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
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I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
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