Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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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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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
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I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's what an artist does," but there ain't too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn't profit, would find an easier hustle. It's a racket now, like everything else, but we're in a capitalistic country - everything's a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
