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Rick Danko

"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."

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"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."

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

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A.E. Samaan

"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."

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A.E. Samaan

"The industry is a menace to artists."

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A.E. Samaan

"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."

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Rick Danko
"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me."

Chance

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Rick Danko
"As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel."

Time

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Rick Danko
"When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to."

People

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Rick Danko
"By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?"

People

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Rick Danko
"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."

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Rick Danko
"When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!"

Thought

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Rick Danko
"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."

Singing

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Rick Danko
"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life."

Life

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Rick Danko
"Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here."

Life

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Rick Danko
"When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste."

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