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"I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"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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"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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"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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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"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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"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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"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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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
People
"That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be."
Life
"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
Music
"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
People
"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
Years
"I am trying to get closer to God."
God
"God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play."
God
"Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through."
Music
"It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music."
Music
"My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity."
Career
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