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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 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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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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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."
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"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
"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."
Writer
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
Absence
"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
Will
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