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"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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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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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one."
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"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
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"I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must."
Enemy
"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility."
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"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was."
Age
"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."
Rules
"Love is so much better when you're not married."
Love
"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there."
Artist
"It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't."
Life
"I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged."
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"I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."
Dignity
"I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down."
Voice
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