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There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

There are so many great singers out there.

I am an honest artist.

Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

There's a lot of great singers out here.