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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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"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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"I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today."
Today
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
Violence
"I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11."
Love
"Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers."
Peace
"My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it."
Change
"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
Artist
"I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little."
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
"My parents were Christian."
Christian
"My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from."
Life
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