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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going."

Reed Hundt, American Public Servant

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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 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."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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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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"We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode."

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"We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such."

Study

"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."

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"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are."

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"I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best."

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"I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands."

God

"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it."

Work

"The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them."

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"I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them."

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"Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies."

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