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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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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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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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"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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"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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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."
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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've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?"
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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"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
"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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate."
Will
"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
Artist
"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
"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
"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
"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
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