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Patti Smith

"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Patti Smith
"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."

England

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Patti Smith
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Desire

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"First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor."

First

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Patti Smith
"My mother answers all my fan mail."

Mother

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Patti Smith
"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."

Paris

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"Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting."

Time

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Patti Smith
"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."

Suffering

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"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."

God

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Patti Smith
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."

Being

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Patti Smith
"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about."

American

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