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"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"I cannot exist as a solo artist."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"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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"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
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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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"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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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
People
"That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be."
Life
"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
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"I am trying to get closer to God."
God
"Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth."
Change
"Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore."
People
"God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play."
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"Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through."
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