Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
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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 have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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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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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.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)
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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
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A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
