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Jermaine Dupri

"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."

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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

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Jermaine Dupri
"I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page."

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Jermaine Dupri
"If you don't know by now, you're never going to know."

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Jermaine Dupri
"We're just welcoming people to our city."

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Jermaine Dupri
"Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game."

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Jermaine Dupri
"My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown."

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Jermaine Dupri
"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."

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Jermaine Dupri
"I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first."

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Jermaine Dupri
"They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood."

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Jermaine Dupri
"When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff."

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Jermaine Dupri
"I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that."

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