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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."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"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."
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
"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."
"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
"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 don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music."
"Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day."
"The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures."
"When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me."
"That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to."
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