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"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
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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'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 started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version."
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"The best artists are gone now."
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"I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!"
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"In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."
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"Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today."
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"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
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"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
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"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"I am an inventor of music."
Music
"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
Music
"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
Effort
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
Artist
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
Love
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
Artist
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
Family
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
Music
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
Life
"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
Love
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