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"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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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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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"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."
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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
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"I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God."
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
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"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do."
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"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
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"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
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"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
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"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
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"I am an inventor of music."
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