J. D. Salinger Quotes
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
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"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
