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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
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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."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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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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"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?"
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"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?"
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"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company."
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"James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally."
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"The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that."
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"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
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"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
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"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"
Irish
"All in the Family was intellectual; it was art."
Art
"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
Artist
"The wages of pedantry is pain."
Pain
"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."
Business
"Even a true artist does not always produce art."
Art
"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."
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"Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail."
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"Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both."
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