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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."

"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."

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

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

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

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!"

"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."

"We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it."

"Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already."
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