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Ned Rorem

"Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist."

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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

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Donna Grant

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

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Ned Rorem
"Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin."

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Ned Rorem
"The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of."

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Ned Rorem
"Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist."

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Ned Rorem
"Art means to dare - and to have been right."

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Ned Rorem
"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence."

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Ned Rorem
"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced."

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