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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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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."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"My parents were Christian."
Christian
"Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic."
Months
"Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music."
Music
"What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music."
Music
"I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11."
Love
"I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time."
Love
"I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time."
Life
"It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful."
Love
"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
Artist
"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
Jazz
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