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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."
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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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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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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas."
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"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."
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"I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas."
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"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."
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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
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"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
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"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough."
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