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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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Explore more quotes by Peabo Bryson

"I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing."
Want

"But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep."
Attitude

"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."
Personality

"I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point."
Artist

"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."
People

"I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so."
Food

"If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music."
Life

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."
Music

"Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody."
Life

"If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing."
Nothing
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