Viola Davis Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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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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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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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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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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 just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
