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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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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
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"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."
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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"The world is a pile of grunge."
World
"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."
Fame
"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."
History
"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
Philosophy
"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it."
Computer
"I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing."
Artist
"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
Hearing
"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
Mercy
"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
Work
"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."
Art
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