Norman Granz Quotes
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole -
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.
iO Tillett Wright -
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. Konrath -
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
Randy Harrison -
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.
Tahj Mowry -
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
Karen Bender -
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker -
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha -
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.
Wallace Stevens
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
Gary Allan -
I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
Fred Armisen -
In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
Christina Aguilera -
I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
Christina Aguilera -
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.
William Eggleston -
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
Edmund Sears -
You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.
Taylor York Paramore -
I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz