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"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
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"I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to."
"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."
"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice."
"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."
"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
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