"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."

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"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."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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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."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

Clint Black, American Musician

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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

John Zorn, American Composer

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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

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"People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years."

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"In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944."

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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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."

"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

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"People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years."

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"New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock."

"In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944."

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"I like to stay home and listen to recordings."

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