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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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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."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
Philosophy
"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
"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."
Fame
"The world is a pile of grunge."
World
"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it."
Computer
"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
Mercy
"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more."
Work
"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
Hearing
"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."
Art
"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."
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