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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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"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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"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
"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."
Career
"I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18."
Father
"Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career."
God
"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."
Opera
"It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years."
Fortune
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