"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

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"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

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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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"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'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."

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"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

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"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

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"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."

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"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."

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"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

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