"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."

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"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."

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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."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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 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."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

John Zorn, American Composer

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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Artist, Artists, Man

"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."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

Artist, Artists, First, Musicians

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

Tina Weymouth, American Musician

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"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."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

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

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"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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"Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful."

"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."

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"Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things."

"I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket."