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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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"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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"I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk."
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"Nothing could stop us, and nothing did for a decade."
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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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