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"I didn't want to be an artist."
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"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."
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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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"You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am."
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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."
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"One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."
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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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"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?"
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"Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive."
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"I've always gotten along best with artists."
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"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
Art
"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
Work
"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
Music
"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."
Work
"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."
Thought
"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."
Work
"Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been."
Age
"Truth is a big concept."
Truth
"It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music."
Music
"Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it."
Years
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