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"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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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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"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 don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."
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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"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."
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"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."
Music
"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."
Money
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
Music
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
Music
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
Music
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Music
"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
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
Execution
"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
Music
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