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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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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 think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one."
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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 would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."
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"I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must."
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"I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage."
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"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art."
Art

"I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down."
Voice

"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility."
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"If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?"
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"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
Enemy

"First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis."
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"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was."
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