"If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more."

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Source : "Exclusive: Eddie Murphy on His Return to Music and the Stage". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. September 9, 2013.

Eddie Murphy

#Artist Quotes #Long Quotes #Performing Quotes

“It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.”
“Iâ€™ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all thatâ€™s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.”
“A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.”
“When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.”
“There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?”

Source : "Joel and Ethan Coen" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2009.
“People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs”
“I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.”
“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

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