Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. Id think about

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. Id think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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