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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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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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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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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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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
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"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
Hope
"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
Culture
"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"
People
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
Force
"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."
People
"People love to hear the mistakes you've made."
Love
"My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think."
Life
"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."
Truth
"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."
Food
"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
Baby
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