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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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"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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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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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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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
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"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion."
Music
"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."
Thought
"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
Music
"I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it."
Work
"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."
Business
"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
People
"I love putting the music together. It's like art."
Art
"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."
Life
"I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen."
Success
"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."
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