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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.