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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."
"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."
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
"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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"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
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