"The industry is a menace to artists."

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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going."

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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."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

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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."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

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"Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think."

Clint Black, American Musician

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"I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce."

Meredith Monk, American Composer

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"Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked."

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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."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

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"I don't want to jump through hoops for people."

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"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."

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"The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records."

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"There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music."

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"There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up."

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"If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead."

Forget

"If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band."

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"Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want."

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"Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along."

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"I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!"

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