"One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."

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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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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

Vladimir Kramnik, Russian Celebrity

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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."

Mike Wilson, American Journalist

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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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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"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."

"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."

"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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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

"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."

"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."

"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 song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."

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"When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight."

"I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer."

"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."

"It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak."

"I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment."

"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist."