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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."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"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."
"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."
"I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?"
"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
Explore more quotes by Peabo Bryson
"I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts."
"There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned."
"If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing."
"Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever."
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