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Holly Johnson

"I always saw myself as a multi media artist."

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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

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Donna Grant

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

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Donna Grant

"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

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Holly Johnson
"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."

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Holly Johnson
"I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood."

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Holly Johnson
"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."

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Holly Johnson
"What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S."

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Holly Johnson
"I always saw myself as a multi media artist."

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Holly Johnson
"Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S."

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Holly Johnson
"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."

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Holly Johnson
"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."

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Holly Johnson
"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."

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Holly Johnson
"Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming."

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