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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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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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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
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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'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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"Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be."
People
"The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate."
Will
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
Being
"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
Education
"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary."
Lie
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
Power
"The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend."
Love
"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
Artist
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
Music
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
Life
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