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"When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight."
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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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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
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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've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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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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"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently."
Money
"This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career."
Beginning
"When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do."
Nothing
"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."
Life
"Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?"
Career
"The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands."
Finance
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles."
Health
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
Public
"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance."
Money
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
Possibility
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