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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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"But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk."
Artist
"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother."
Mother
"I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity."
Gender
"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."
Feelings
"I'm not involved with the female world."
World
"I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer."
Queen
"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way."
Mother
"I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity."
Age
"I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say."
People
"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."
Money
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