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"I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history."

"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."

"I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time."

"Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM."

"I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me."

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
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