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Mikhail Baryshnikov

"Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great."

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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

"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."

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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

"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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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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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing."

Life

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"To walk across the street is a risk."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Dancing is my obsession. My life."

Life

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I am not the first straight dancer or the last."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."

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