Wesley Willis
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"Wesley Willis" was an American singer-songwriter and visual arts/visual artist from Chicago. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground music/underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition, with songs featuring his bizarre, humorous and often obscene lyrics sung over the Electronic keyboard#Concepts and definitions/auto accompaniment feature on his Technics (brand)/Technics KN electronic keyboard.

Willis gained an enormous cult following in the 1990s, mainly upon the release of Greatest Hits in 1995 on the Alternative Tentacles label. The album was released at the urging of punk rock pioneer Jello Biafra who compiled its tracklist. In addition to a large body of solo musical work, Willis fronted his own punk rock band, the Wesley Willis Fiasco. He was also a visual artist long before his forays into music, producing hundreds of intricate, unusual, colored ink-pen drawings, most of them of Chicago streetscapes and Chicago Transit Authority/CTA buses.

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Put me on torture hell rides.

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They like my music because I rock.

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I don't want to mess up my songs. If I didn't end my songs with commercials, I wouldn't know what to say.

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You're my sweetheart to the max. I love you like Crispy Critters.

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I want to be famous and rich. . . . I am famous and rich.

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I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out of trouble. I play my music to be a good person. My music keeps me from doing bad things. It keeps me from hurting other people and going to prison. I play my music to keep my mind off my demons.

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Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

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Take me off on harmony joy rides.

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I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!

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