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Jackie DeShannon

"I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me."

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"I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me."

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Donna Grant

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

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Donna Grant

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

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Donna Grant

"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

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Donna Grant

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."

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Donna Grant

"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."

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Donna Grant

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

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Donna Grant

"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."

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Donna Grant

"Writing and Painting are the same for me."

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Jackie DeShannon
"Ignorance is kind of bliss."

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Jackie DeShannon
"There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time."

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Jackie DeShannon
"I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now."

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Jackie DeShannon
"I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration."

Music

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Jackie DeShannon
"Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing."

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Jackie DeShannon
"I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film."

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Jackie DeShannon
"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized."

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Jackie DeShannon
"I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights."

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Jackie DeShannon
"And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time."

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Jackie DeShannon
"And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young."

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