Arthur Fogel Quotes

I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.

Arthur Fogel

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• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• 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
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Sister
  • Used
  • Marry

• 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
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Picture

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Women
  • Used
  • Mere

• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • More

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Best
  • Protect
  • Used

• I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Day
  • Artist
  • Everyday

• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Film

• I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

  

  La India
  • Used
  • Embarrassed

• I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Learned
  • Used
  • Maniacal

• Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Used
  • Deserve
  • Herbs

• My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Honest

• If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Popular

• It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I want to make a record that is a little more unsettling and maybe isn't as easily understood now." That just seemed more important, like, for me to make as an artist, than it was to make something to make people feel safe right away.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Soul
  • Friendship
  • Bodies

• In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Research
  • British
  • Paying

• I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.

  

  Arthur Fogel
  • Artist
  • Scene
  • Used