"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

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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."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Artist, Artists, Confusion, Intellectuals

"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

Clint Black, American Musician

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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

John Zorn, American Composer

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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Artist, Artists, Man

"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

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"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."

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"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."

Word

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

Feelings

"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."

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"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."

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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"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."

"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

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"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."

"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."

"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."

"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year."

"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."

"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."