Adria Petty Quotes
My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
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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'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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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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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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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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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.
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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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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
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It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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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.'
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Mostly it's just finding things that were distinctively local, which you don't find very much anymore.
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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
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My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
