Andrew Jack Quotes

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

Andrew Jack

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• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Know
  • Always
  • Artist

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Help
  • Free

• Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Artist

• I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.

  

  Raekwon
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Same

• If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Artist
  • Voice
  • Impact

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Trying

• At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Different
  • Artist

• 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
  • Work
  • Long
  • Artist

• If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Artist
  • Lawyer
  • Painter

• I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Theater

• The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Artist

• I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Great
  • Art
  • Artist

• I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

  

  Banksy
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Education

• At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Stolen
  • Honest Man

• When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

  

  Richard Clare Danko The Band
  • CD technology

• I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

  

  Stuart Woods
  • Ideas
  • Trouble
  • Hard

• You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Killing
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

  

  Andrew Jack
  • Artist
  • Survive