Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

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

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.