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"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."
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"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."
Life
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."
Paradise
"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them."
Life
"I think women are excellent social critics."
Woman
"I hate zoos."
Hate
"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."
Work
"I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA."
People
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