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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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"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."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"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."
"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."
"I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?"
"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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"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."
"Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town."
"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."
"That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music."
"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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