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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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"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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"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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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"I didn't want to be an artist."
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"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
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"One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."
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"The more far-out artists, the better."
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"Love is so much better when you're not married."
Love
"I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage."
Marriage
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house."
Life
"It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't."
Life
"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."
Age
"If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?"
People
"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
"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."
Difference
"Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women."
Woman
"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point."
Music
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