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Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.


Andy Kindler

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ANDY WARHOL If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode...
ANDY SAMBERG Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
ANDY SAMBERG Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being g...
ANDY SAMBERG Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
ANDY SAMBERG No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn&#...
ANDY SAMBERG It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business t...
ANDY SAMBERG I'm a big Letterman fan.
ANDY SAMBERG I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. ...
ANDY SAMBERG I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Sa...
ANDY SAMBERG A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it...
ANDY SAMBERG If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have abou...
ANDY SAMBERG I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be bo...
ANDY SAMBERG That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
ANDY SAMBERG You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life....
ANDY SAMBERG Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
ANDY WARHOL What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumer...
ANDY WARHOL Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
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