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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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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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"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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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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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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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think."
Life
"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
Woman
"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."
People
"White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people."
Men
"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."
Music
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
Force
"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
Hope
"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
People
"You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it."
People
"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
Pain
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