Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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All artists are crazy.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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The more far-out artists, the better.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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When we allow our fears and insecurities to blind us momentarily, we’re often tempted to make the gate narrower than God does.
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When things get hard, stop for a while and look back and see how far you have come. Don't forget how rewarding it is. You are the most beautiful flower, more than anything else in the world.
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I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante and Legs falling in love with each other, Dante's mom and dad remembering something about their youth as they examined my truck, and me, the proud owner. I had something of value– even if it was just a truck that brought out a sweet nostalgia in people. It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep that photograph forever.
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I feel really grateful to be a part of a cast that is dedicated week in and week out to doing good work, and you don't always come across that, but everybody on the call sheet is committed to doing good work, and a big part of that is having these firefighters on set and using our resources.
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A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.
