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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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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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"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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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
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"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."
Music
"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
Artist
"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."
Body
"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."
Attitude
"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."
Funny
"You've got to really know your song, inside and out."
Music
"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
Work
"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
Now
"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."
Military
"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."
World
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