“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”
Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control [...] his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.
"The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience", Western Folklore 14:3, (July 1955), p. 170–173
“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”
Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
Original: Qualsiasi professionista dello spettacolo, ogni volta che lavora senza guadagnare soldi, si condannerà a farlo per sempre. Chiunque penserà che il suo lavoro non abbia alcun valore. La sua arte deve essere tutelata, apprezzata e remunerata, in ogni posto del mondo.
Source: prevale.net
https://web.archive.org/web/20170202035251/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170126/jsp/siliguri/story_132419.jsp
“The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.”
Identity
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“As a dancer he stands alone, and no singer knows his way around a song like Fred Astaire.”
Irving Berlin, quoted in Puttin' on the Ritz, BBC Programme Acquisition, 1999.
“Full lasting is the song, though he,
The singer, passes”
The Thrush in February, st. 17 (1888).
I – The Good General.
"Generals and Generalship" (1939)