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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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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
Leader
"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."
London
"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
Jazz
"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
Jazz
"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
Jazz
"I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas."
Artist
"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."
Audience
"The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups."
Sales
"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
Jazz
"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
Artist
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