The Artist: Emancipated Slave
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
"I have dreams of angels holding notes indefinitely in perfect pitch and you dont want it to stop because if it does youre dead!" The Artist laughs. He blurted this out à propos of nothing very obvious.
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