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

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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."

"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."

"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."

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

"I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to."

"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."

"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."

"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."

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"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."

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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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"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."

"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

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