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"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
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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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"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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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
Company
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
Artist
"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
Being
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
Companionship
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
Machine
"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
Power
"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
Work
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
History
"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
Accident
"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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