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I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Well, excuuuuuse me!

Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Steve Martin

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Steve Martin

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

Steve Martin

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

Steve Martin

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Steve Martin

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Steve Martin

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

Steve Martin

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Steve Martin

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Steve Martin

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

Steve Martin

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Steve Martin

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Steve Martin

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Steve Martin

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Steve Martin

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Steve Martin

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

Steve Martin

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Steve Martin

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Steve Martin

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Steve Martin

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Steve Martin

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Steve Martin

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

Steve Martin

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Steve Martin

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

Steve Martin

I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

Steve Martin

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Steve Martin

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Steve Martin

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

Steve Martin

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Steve Martin