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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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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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"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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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Artist
"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
Audience
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
Achievement
"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
Nature
"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
Music
"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
Music
"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
Music
"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
Individuality
"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
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"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there."
Life
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