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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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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
"I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all."
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
"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."
"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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"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."
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
"To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together."
"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."
"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love."
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
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