"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

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"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

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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."

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

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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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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"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

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"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."

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"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."

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"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."

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"Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been."

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"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."

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"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered."

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"My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project."

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"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."

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"When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store."

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"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."

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