"I always knew that I wanted to be an artist."

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"I always knew that I wanted to be an artist."

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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."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

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"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

Clint Black, American Musician

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"I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce."

Meredith Monk, American Composer

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"Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked."

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian Singer

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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

Laurie Anderson, American Musician

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

Will M. Cook, American Composer

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"I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with."

Adrian Belew, American Musician

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"I cannot exist as a solo artist."

Courtney Love, American Musician

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"I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure."

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"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."

Education

"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."

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"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people."

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"We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle."

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"Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them."

People

"Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music."

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"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."

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"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."

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