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Holly Johnson

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

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

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

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Asa Don Brown

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

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Asa Don Brown

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

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Asa Don Brown

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Holly Johnson
"One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make."

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

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

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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
"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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