Hector Berlioz Quotes
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
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In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.
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Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
