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"I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe."
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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've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company."

"That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music."

"Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change."

"Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town."

"I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe."
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